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DIED. CAROL SHIELDS, 68, Canadian novelist whose graceful, sympathetic portrayals of ordinary people, often married women, led to a flood of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which detailed nearly nine decades in the life of a housewife turned gardening columnist; of complications from breast cancer; in Victoria, B.C. Rejecting the idea that fiction must be high concept, she said, "I wanted wallpaper in my novels, cereal bowls, cupboards ... head colds, cramps...
...boycotted the previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said...
...Canadian citizen Wilson R.S. Prichard ’03 had expected to begin work at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., earlier this month on a special one-year Optional Practical Training (OPT) program...
...believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S., Canadian or Western European passports and good command of the English language and the North American interior. While the network had always tried to recruit people with U.S. and other Western passports, FBI counter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign on disaffected Americans, green-card holders and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitors who had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society and culture. This effort...
...hard to set a price on Antarctica's allure, though. What British explorer Ernest Shackleton called "Antarctica fever" is there for all to see in the eyes of the Canadian, Australian and American guides on the Akademik Ioffe. It leads them back time and again to the great, blinding white south. It is also utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth...