Word: canadas
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...dressed in a purple vest and red tie, interspersed his readings with anecdotes about meeting with a dream interpreter "much different from Jung or Freud," receiving a letter from T.S. Eliot '10, and attending cocktail parties in Canada...
...graduate of South Delta Secondary School, Suurkask is no stranger to awards. She was a member of Team British Columbia for the 1995 Canada Winter Games and for the Canadian National Senior Championship. She was also a member of the Canadian Junior National Team last year...
...started, as the big ideas in technology often do, with a science-fiction writer. William Gibson, a young expatriate American living in Canada, was wandering past the video arcades on Vancouver's Granville Street when something about the way the players were hunched over their glowing screens struck him as odd. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he says. These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected...
Prince Charles, meanwhile, is making off to Canada for a scheduled visit. Princes William, 15, and Harry, 13, plan to join their dad on his working trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 23 and 24, Charles' office has announced. The three princes then will spend some time skiing at a nearby resort. Charles last visited Canada in April 1996 and was there in October 1991 with the boys and their mother, Princess Diana. Harry accompanied his father on official engagements in South Africa last year, but this will be Wills' first such trip since his mother's death...
Perhaps the most rousing moment came when the U.S. women's hockey team beat four-time world champion Canada, 3-1, to take an emotional gold. The two games between the fierce enemies introduced fans to a style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...