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Montreal's greatest attraction remains its inner cityscape. Though it is a largely French-speaking metropolis of almost 3.5 million (nearly everyone speaks at least a little English), its core is easy to explore on foot. Visitors inevitably are drawn downtown, the heart of which is Rue Sainte-Catherine and the dozens of streets that radiate from it. In the winter the entire district is accessible through a 19-mile grid of underground passages and atriums known as the underground city. The nearby and stately Rue Sherbrooke is also worth checking out, especially from around high-end Rue Crescent...
...welcome, President Faust, to Harvard’s inner circle, but task your forces well. A committee is like a delicate exotic fruit: Touch it and the bloom is gone...
...touching of all is his tale of Clive Wearing, an English musician stricken in 1985 with a post-brain-infection amnesia so devastating that from one minute to the next he does not know who, where or what he is. At 69, just two things are unscathed in his inner life: a profound love for his wife and the ability to sing or play on the piano any piece of music set in front of him. Sacks describes Wearing's music as a rope let down from heaven: "Without performance, the thread is broken, and he is thrown back once...
...Couture, it is true, is an art form—a channel for the transmission of culture. As is the case with aesthetics in general, its refined function is expression, a means by which an individual projects inner feeling and character. As such, fashion is a sensibility with which it is important to stay in tune. However, it seems that increasingly fewer individuals outside of the elite circles dictate or are even truly conscious of their tastes. In the practical, profit-driven implementation of retail and commercialization, fashion is becoming an increasingly supply-side phenomenon that creates its own inevitable...
...these changes in no way affect the mandatory minimum sentences Congress set in the '80s for drug trafficking. Back then, crack cocaine was associated with inner-city violence and drug-addicted babies, while the powdered version of the drug was considered yuppie nose candy. Congress cracked down so hard on crack that users who get caught with five grams of the stuff - about five Sweet'N Low packets' worth - get a minimum of five years in prison, which is more than the statutory maximum for simple possession of any quantity of powder cocaine, heroin or any other controlled substance...