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Look at it, for just a minute, the other way round. China recently published an "Atlas of Shame" cataloging its abasements at the hands of colonial powers over the past 155 years. First on the list: Britain, abetted by American merchants in 1840, turned its battleships and guns on Canton in order to ram opium down Chinese throats and open China to foreign exploitation. The humiliating siege ended when the Emperor capitulated and ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain...
...alone new networks to offer alternative service in key markets where demand for state-of-the-art data, long-distance and local calling was high. Similar deals were rolled out through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...
...CANTON, N.Y.--Nil points (pronounced "neel pwanh"). No points...
...real terms, the Canton-Pots-dam trip is Harvard hockey's equivalent of the West Coast swing for the Celtics or the Bruins. You feel very far away from home; geography allows the parents of some of the Canadian players a rare chance to see their kids play; each point taken from each game can slingshot your season forward...
Before he became Marilyn Manson, Warner, now 28, lived a youth of bland middle-class normality in Canton, Ohio. His parents, a furniture salesman and a nurse, sent him to a strict Christian boarding school, which, he later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk...