Word: canadianism
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Honey, would you please pass me the wine, so I can cry into it?" As the bill for a dinner at L'Arpège in Paris was served up, its recipient couldn't restrain a shocked yelp ("$900 Canadian!"). His female companion, whose menu displayed no prices, had only been able to guess how much anything cost by her partner's cringes as she ordered. I cringed, too. French haute cuisine is frequently underwritten - and then written off as mugging at Sabatier knifepoint - by hapless tourists. Since the late 18th century, when the Revolution cooked the goose of French...
Even for those accustomed to northern climates, an election in the dark of Canadian winter can try the soul. On Jan. 23 Canadians will vote for a new Parliament, and in this normally unflappable nation there's a restless and angry mood that bodes ill for the governing Liberal Party. With two weeks remaining before the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well...
...shame. Because it overshadows the true, uplifting spirit of the event and the unifying currents of brotherhood, tolerance, and opportunity that underlie it. And it obscured a pair of recent Olympics-related announcements with resonance in the Harvard community.Those were the unveilings of the final rosters for the Canadian and American women’s ice hockey squads slated to compete at the Winter Games in Turin, Italy in February, lists which include an impressive six Harvard affiliates. The Canadians will travel to the Alps with two-time Patty Kazmaier Award winner Jennifer Botterill...
...exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto." DAVID MILLER, Toronto mayor, reflecting on a record year for gun-related deaths in the Canadian city after a dispute among 10 to 15 youths erupted in gunfire on a busy street last week, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding six others...
...Soleil (playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas) is performed on, and above, two revolving platforms. As the artists cavort on a boat, or fight a battle, or swing through a forest scene, the ground is literally moving under their feet. As conceived by Robert Lepage, the innovative Canadian writer-director, the $165 million action musical is unquestionably the most technically complex show ever devised, achieving marvels Broadway is too timid and strapped even to dream of. The first Cirque spectacle with a story line, KA traces the exploits of teenage twins separated from their parents and each other...