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Canada's long-running confederation soap opera headed for a cliff-hanger finale last week. In the hardscrabble Atlantic province of Newfoundland, 52 provincial legislators hurriedly canvassed their constituents on whether to accept a constitutional agreement hashed out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's ten provincial premiers a week earlier. In the prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place...
...Join hands and jump off the cliff together. So goes Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's scenario for a bipartisan federal deficit reduction. The tactic . proved its worth in California. Proposition 111 had the support of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties and more than 250 business, labor and social-service groups that spanned the political spectrum. Bipartisan support reduces a politician's vulnerability to attack by opponents as a tax-happy spender. In Washington Democrats insist they need that cover from Republicans -- but Republicans fear they would be exposed to primary challenges from even more conservative candidates back home...
...Cliff Fletcher, general manager of the Atlanta Flames, ran a hockey team...
Chuck was never really cut out to be a professional hockey player. The day of his first game, when he was five years old and living in Atlanta, his mother sent him off to the rink wearing a football helmet. Cliff was out of town, and she didn't know any better. As Chuck himself jokes, "It was all downhill from there...
...When we got to Calgary, the program was far more advanced [than the one in Atlanta]," Cliff says. "I think, down deep, his father knew then that he wasn't ever going to be a professional hockey player...