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...Dawson College will examine ways to beef up its security, said its director general Richard Filion. The school may reopen as early as Monday...
...make a thorough assessment to make sure this will not happen again," Filion said. "I don't want to have to lock our doors or make Dawsonlike a fortress. We are about education. First we have to understand why this is happening in society...
Such self-denial was the way of life at the farm in Angers, Quebec, where Filion was raised as one of ten children. His childhood, recalls a friend, was "three boys in a bed, two horses in a stall, that sort of thing." His father kept a few trotters on the farm, and Hervé practically grew up in a sulky seat. "When I was a kid," he recalls, "I used to run all the way home at lunchtime to work with the horses and then run back to school. I didn't play hockey like the other kids...
...fact, he was suspended nine times in the U.S. and Canada for various rule infractions committed in his zeal to win. The biggest blow came in 1965 when the U.S. Trotting Association lifted his license for "repeated violations"-cutting off other drivers, for example, and betting on races. Stunned, Filion reformed and was eventually reinstated by the U.S.T.A. Ever since he has performed like a man possessed. Last summer he was upended in a nasty three-sulky accident that left him with torn shoulder ligaments and facial cuts that required seven stitches. Undaunted. Filion not only was back...
...Filion figures that he still has plenty of time to better a lifetime record that now exceeds 4,000 victories. "I'm a winner," he says. "I'm like a hockey player who knows he's going to score a goal I know I'm going to win, and sometimes even the horse feels that...