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This fall, however, Due South has broken the prime-time barrier. Produced by Toronto-based Alliance Communications, the series has done surprisingly well for CBS in the ratings (and even better on Canada's CTV, where it is the highest-rated Canadian show ever). The culture clash between a Dudley Do-Right Mountie (Paul Gross) and his streetwise partner (David Marciano) is so genially caricatured that it has charmed audiences on both sides of the border. "I think Canadians like the fact we're offending Americans, and Americans think we're offending Canadians," says creator Paul Haggis. "That's part...
...Such nations as Taiwan and South Korea, for example, are growing at the astonishing rate of more than 7% a year. Brazil, Argentina and Peru are advancing at more than 4%. With prospects for global commerce so bright, the economists had little doubt that Congress would approve the barrier-lifting General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade treaty by next year...
...spirit. For most of the week, bonfires fed by old arrest records and prison sentencing memos left a dull blue haze over the town's courtyards. Outside the home of the region's despised military commander, his band's tubas, trombones and horns were piled up to form a barrier in the middle of the street, then littered with thousands of pages of musical scores. "It was their music," said one looter. "We don't need to hear it anymore...
...member reports being cornered at the gym by would-be jurors. From as far away as Minnesota and Florida, people eager -- avid! -- to do their official duty have been phoning the offices of Judge Lance Ito and District Attorney Gil Garcetti. That out-of-staters are ineligible is no barrier to their civic-mindedness...
EDUCATION: Beyond the Sound Barrier...