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...under Canada's founding British North America (BNA) Act of 1867. Among them: a provincial veto over federal decisions concerning natural resources, a greater say in the operation of the Bank of Canada and a hand in the appointment of Canada's Supreme Court judges. Says Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon: "English Canada tends to see Ottawa's tunnel vision [toward Quebec] as distracting from real issues...
When Mary Lyon founded her school for girls in 1837, she avoided the word college because the "benevolent gentlemen" whose support she needed might not approve. Mount Holyoke "seminary" eventually did become a college, and several gentlemen became its president. Now, after 41 years, Holyoke is again to be headed by a woman: Elizabeth Kennan, 39, an associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life...
...elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program. It is a plan to help pay for the country's nuclear expansion by making France a major dealer in that growing international commodity, "spent" atomic fuel...
Paul Bocuse, 51, maítre of maítres and owner of the great restaurant outside Lyon that bears his name: "Find out in the market what is good, fresh and in season. Then choose your recipe. The next most important thing is to have a good public, which in the home means people who are eager to eat. Use recipes as inspirations: never give up on one if you are lacking an ingredient...
...series of films about photography will be screened at 8 p.m. in the MIT Creative Photography Lab, on the third floor of the MIT Armory, on Mass. Ave. near the main building. The films are: The Weapons of Gordon Parks, EI Mojado, by Danny Lyon, Weegee's New York, and Black Has Always Been Beautiful, a film about the work of James Van Der Zee's, a turn-of-the-century black photographer in Harlem, N.Y. A one dollar donation is requested...