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During the two-hour drive from Montreal, where U2 played the previous night, Bono flips through manila folders full of briefing papers to prepare for meetings with Canada's opposition leaders. He fires a few croaky-throated questions at Drummond--"What is this soft-lumber argument between Canada and the U.S.?"--and tries out phrases for the media scrum that will start the day, imagining how they will play in the Canadian papers. "'Make-or-break month for Martin, says Bono,'" he sighs. "Not exactly poetry...
...expertise that let us produce many of the biggest draws of the event in house. Most members of the Committee contributed design, text, or pictures to an extensive and beautiful website. A team built a nine-foot Trojan horse for only a few hundred dollars’ worth of lumber and paint. The former owner of a cake-baking company (and a Lowell resident) approached HoCo about building a massive cake in the shape of the House. Hours of work from individual Lowellians saved thousands of dollars. The treasurer haggled with vendors and worked with other HoCos to get group...
...draws less than 15 percent of its fiber from the Canadian Boreal forest. “The small percentage of Boreal fiber we use is harvested responsibly and is promptly reforested,” company spokesman David J. Dickson wrote in an e-mail. He also said that lumber companies are to blame for deforestation in Canada, writing that “[a]ccording to the Canadian Forest Service, 83 percent of all trees harvested in Canada in 2000 were used to produce lumber to build homes.” The second half of the event—focused...
Here’s how this year’s crop fared with the lumber...
...years, it's been the same question: Which Neil? The lumber-shredding, screeching Canadian eagle of vengeance? The willfully weird but kind of dull experimenter? The acoustic guy? This time it's just Good Neil. Neil Young, 59, started making Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, his (lordy) 31st album, a week before he had brain surgery--a nice p.r. detail but also a legit reason for him to think about mortality and drift back to his days on the Canadian steppe. There's politics and religion too, as well as some of Nashville's best musicians, though...