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Every team is in first place on opening day, goes an old baseball maxim. Hope and possibility abound. Unless you are a member of the impossibly hopeless Montreal Expos. Then opening day is just the first chord of a season-long funeral march. "I like to use the analogy of someone who has been told he has a terminal illness," says Expos president Tony Tavares, who prays fans will buy tickets, if only to pay their last respects...
...first professional contract, is young for the job, full of energy and plans to turn his Expos stint into another G.M. opportunity down the road. Robinson, a Hall of Famer, must truly love the game. He certainly has the players' respect, but hasn't made much headway with Montreal's native language. Robinson wished one of the team's Francophone beat writers "Bonne chance." "Bonne chance a vous," the writer responded. "Uh, what's that now?" It's a shame Robinson didn't get it. No manager needs luck more...
...Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify before Congress after they have stripped people of their life savings [NATION, Feb. 18]. Those people who gained personally at the expense of others should be treated the same as the al-Qaeda terrorists: they should be sent directly to prison. PHILIP MONGEAU Montreal...
...through four partners between them (Sale placed 12th in pairs in the 1994 Olympics) and even dabbled in singles skating. They first tried teaming up in 1996 but nothing came of it. Two years later, both their careers had stalled: he was selling beer and hot dogs in a Montreal stadium for $10 an hour, and she was waitressing at an Edmonton coffee shop. While the rest of the skating universe was still buzzing about the Nagano Olympics, Pelletier flew to Edmonton for a second try, and the two clicked. The minute Pelletier got back home, the phone rang...
...more unexpected effects of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. has been a renewed interest in Islamic art. Though some galleries were initially concerned that shows of Islamic art would be ill received, the opposite has been true. A Montreal museum canceled a show of Muslim artists right after the attacks but reinstated it after public outcry. Several small galleries quickly put together exhibitions, including the Honolulu Academy of Art, which had planned to open an Islamic gallery late in 2002 with work from Doris Duke's collection but rushed out an exhibition of its own works last November...