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ALEX TREBEK to host Canada's Next Prime Minister reality show. Look fierce, Jean Chr??tien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...route. The Coast Guard says the vessel is simply taking the quickest route home. The Canadians claim that the strait is an internal waterway, and they see the U.S. insistence on entering without permission as an insult to the country's sovereignty. "The Americans are abusing us," declares Jean Chr??tien, external affairs minister in the opposition Liberal Party's shadow cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Aug. 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...origin of cretin is traced by some to the French chr??tien, meaning "Christian," hence "innocent." The Latin Christianus, again, was probably a translation of the older cretin, from crete (craie), a. chalky fuller's earth found in Crete, used by the Romans for coloring the face, especially by actors. A common mark of cretinism is a sallow, yellow earthy complexion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cretins* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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