Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger), as a work-obsessed '90s dad (First Kid), as battlers of alien invaders (Independence Day, Mars Attacks!) and, perhaps most disturbing of all, as Alan Alda (Canadian Bacon...
...Saturday, March 22, around the time that the disciples of Heaven's Gate were just beginning their quiet and meticulous self-extinction, a small cottage in the French Canadian village of St.-Casimir exploded into flames. Inside the burning house were five people, all disciples of the Order of the Solar Temple. Since 1994, 74 members of that group have gone to their death in Canada, Switzerland and France. In St.-Casimir the dead were Didier Queze, 39, a baker, his wife Chantale Goupillot, 41, her mother and two others of the faithful. At the last minute the Queze children...
...encounter with chess. Even at 4, he felt a certain je ne sais quoi about the checkered board. He was 7 when he had his first official win, and now, with years of two-hours-a-day practice behind him, he has become the youngest chess grandmaster ever, beating Canadian grandmaster Kevin Spraggett, 42, at a tournament in France. He can't best world champion Garry Kasparov yet, but he warns, "I'm getting closer." Says his trainer, Iosif Dorfman: "He does much better than Kasparov at the same...
...will be sent to the U.S. or back to Saudi Arabia, where he could face the death penalty. FBI agents are anxious to question Al-Sayegh, since the Saudi government has so far not allowed them access to any suspect in the case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Al-Sayegh is a member of the Saudi Hizballah, a group with ties to Iran. If true, the news poses a difficult diplomatic problem for the U.S. of how to retaliate against a growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response...
...will be sent to the U.S. or back to Saudi Arabia, where he could face the death penalty. FBI agents are anxious to question Al-Sayegh, since the Saudi government has so far not allowed them access to any suspect in the case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Al-Sayegh is a member of the Saudi Hizballah, a group with ties to Iran. If true, the news poses a difficult diplomatic problem for the U.S. of how to retaliate against a growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response...