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After tipping your hat to Tegan S. Shohet '01, who was named a Canadian Rhodes Scholar in a separate competition earlier this month, ask how it could be that the University, who usually sends four or five and once even 10 of its own on this most prestigious of scholarships, suddenly sends none. Have Harvard students in the Class of 2001 lost their edge...
Tegan S. Shohet '01, of Mather House and Toronto, Ontario was named a Canadian Rhodes scholar in a separate process last week...
...winner in the election was Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a political figure considered old hat by everyone except the voters. The big loser was the Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day, a political figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...
...Canadian elections have historically been forums for debating specific programs. That makes sense in a parliamentary system, since the winner, having won by gaining a legislative majority, has the power to turn his programs into law. If Canadians weren't so polite, which goes along with being orderly, they might point out that the detailed discussions American presidential candidates engage in about programs are virtually meaningless. Partly because of the separation of powers, the new President almost never signs into law the programs he promised. When you look at it that way, the only really important thing about George...
Retirees searching for an instant circle of friends need look no farther than the northern shore of Mexico's Lake Chapala, where tens of thousands of American and Canadian retirees form what is probably the largest English-language expatriate community in the world. Mary Alice Sargent, who lives with her husband Erick in the popular lakeside village Ajijic, appreciates that the community will rally around anyone in need...