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Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams, 27, is a self-described tortured soul who recounts the minutiae of his romantic failings in harrowing biographical songs. Singer/songwriter Bryan Adams, 43, is a sunny Canadian whose songs are crafted with lapidary precision for Top 40 radio and the playlist of wedding bands. Apparently some of Ryan's more puerile fans find the similarity of their names an irresistible opportunity for humor. At a recent Ryan Adams concert in Nashville, Tenn., a fan shouted out a request for Summer of '69, a Bryan Adams song. Get it? Ryan stopped playing, insisted the lights be turned...
...unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly...
...make the movie, Pollack the American?and Noyce the Australian, Caine the Englishman, Fraser the Canadian and an international army of technicians led by Aussie picture-poet Christopher Doyle behind the camera?had to drift back to Vietnam. Again there were white men giving orders to yellow men, car bombs in a Saigon square, dangerous assignations in the jungle. The crew shut down Ho Chi Minh City's busiest square for a week, transforming it into the cyclo-filled Saigon of colonial days. They did the same a month later in Hanoi's Old Quarter, and then...
...miles northwest of Vancouver, deep in the Canadian province of British Columbia, where heli-fishing in the temperate coastal rain forest represents angling at its most spectacular. With some of the world's biggest runs of migratory wild salmon and steelhead, along with abundant rainbow and cutthroat trout, the inlets and islands south of the great Skeena River offer the kind of fishing our grandfathers liked to reminisce about. Until recently many of the smaller rivers had not been fished at all. There are no roads along the coast, and the rivers have too many rapids for boats to make...
...disappointed that there was no opportunity to curl at Harvard,” started the Curling Club. A native of Nova Scotia who had curled for five years prior to coming to college, Wendt’s love for the sport led her to the Canadian Club of Boston, a local curling group. “It reminds me of home and the lingo and culture of the game brings up a lot of memories,” she says. This year the Curling Club joins up with the Canadian Club at the Brookline country club, where they curl together...