Word: canadas
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...contrast is bewildering. Some Quebecers in Canada feel confident enough to start their own nation, while literally across the St. Lawrence River, the same group--who to this day identify themselves as "French Canadian"--aren't even sure they will survive beyond the next generation. This stark contrast betrays a lot about the development of two very different systems...
...Canada, still in need of a catchy analogy like "melting pot," claims to be more of a tossed salad (different elements with the same oh-so-delicate dressing), or--my favorite--a fruitcake (chunks of different goodies in the same heavy cake). This is an integrative, not assimilative, approach to racial integration. Ministries for multiculturalism, official bilingualism and a high rate of immigrant flow create an environment where different ethnic groups are free to continue their cultures without being filtered through a dominant Canadian...
...Solar Temple, many of whom signed over their assets. Investigators suggested that the cult may have amassed as much as $93 million and that part of the money was used to support a posh life-style for Jouret and Di Mambro and to buy houses in Western Europe and Canada. Last week at least five more Temple properties were discovered. Two of them -- an apartment near Montreux, Switzerland, and a villa near Avignon, France -- had been rigged to explode in flames...
Swiss, French and Canadian officials also probed the possibility that Jouret < and Di Mambro had been involved in gunrunning or money-laundering schemes. Jouret had publicly urged followers to stockpile weapons to prepare for the end of the world and last year pleaded guilty in Canada to illegal arms possession. Canadian officials confirmed they were pursuing specific information implicating Di Mambro in money laundering, but they expressed skepticism at a report that Solar Temple leaders had purchased guns and other military equipment in Australia and resold the materiel in the Third World...
...offering bargains again, if you book your flights quickly. Northwest Airlines is offering discounts of up to 40% for travel from Nov. 24 through Jan.14 for tickets bought by this Friday. The tickets are nonrefundable and are good for travel only in the lower 48 states, Alaska and Canada. If you want to fly overseas, check out TWA, which is offering discounts of up to 30% on routes from 15 U.S. cities to 10 European destinations. The TWA tickets must be purchased by midnight tomorrow (Tuesday), and are good for travel through March 15, except during the holidays of Christmas...