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...weeks ago, Mulroney thought he had secured an agreement on the pact after a 70-hour marathon of closed-door bargaining with provincial premiers in Ottawa. Last week he saw that deal fall apart when the legislatures of Manitoba and Newfoundland adjourned without taking ratification votes. "Today is not the day to launch new constitutional initiatives," a somber Mulroney said afterward. "It is a time to heal wounds and reach out to fellow Canadians...
...June 23 deadline loomed, three provincial governments balked at ratification. Mulroney waited until the final weeks before the deadline to call the ten provincial premiers to Ottawa for a weeklong marathon of closed- door constitutional bargaining to win the dissidents over. The political leaders emerged with the original Meech Lake agreement unchanged. What broke the standoff was an agreement to seek reform -- or at least reapportionment -- for Canada's appointed Senate, which underrepresents the west. The ministers further committed themselves to discuss aboriginal self-government, minority-language rights and guarantees of sexual equality...
...contrast extends to the hours they prefer, even their table manners. Bush bounds eagerly out of bed at 5:30 a.m., and always has. Sununu is a night owl who, when studying engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would organize a marathon bridge game or keep fraternity brothers awake while thwokking a lacrosse ball off his wall, then handle his homework in an hour or so before class. Bush is so exquisitely considerate that at meals, without breaking conversation, he will shift his water glass to give the waiter more room as he arrives with the soup. When Sununu...
...GLOBAL FESTIVAL Not sure how to celebrate April 22? Here's a sampler of the worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some tree planting or trash sculpting...
...Video marathon. The VH-1 cable network will air 52 consecutive hours, starting the night of April 20, of Earth Day programming, including musical performances, videos, short documentary films, humor and political commentary...