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...partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow, but we're read, and we're true blue...
Arthur truly believes she is another Thoreau, gone off to the wilderness to find out something profound and then write it down. But she has the formula reversed; Thoreau, like everyone else who lived in 19th century Concord, was brilliant, and he went off to the woods so he'd have time to ruminate over the thoughts he already...
...Establishing a temporary amending formula based on unanimous agreement between Ottawa and the provinces before something less unwieldy is approved, by referendum if necessary...
Particularly cloying to the provinces is Trudeau's proposal of a temporary amending formula. It would probably take several protracted negotiation sessions, maybe years, to hammer out an acceptable permanent formula, and in the interim the provinces would feel they lacked leverage in federal-provincial relations. Perhaps the single most important reason for the provincial premiers' refusal to perform the obvious and assent to a constitution, however, is local political pressure. None of the premiers, save Davis, can afford to appear "soft" in defending provincial interests; none can allow Trudeau to steal center stage...
...Quebecois will doubtless try to capitalize on any pro-Anglophone or pro-West articles in the constitution; other provinces could rail against concessions to Quebec. The possibility of a wealthy province like Alberta withdrawing from a revised federation is greater then many think. Variations on Levesque's "sovereignty-association" formula for secession may prove the wave of the future...