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...Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said it was too early to give an exact cause. Junta Under Pressure...
...Data's. "It's a sleeping giant," Gold says of her company, "in the sense that many people still think of us as an old telegraph company and don't really recognize how connected we are to the populations of the world." Appointed president in May 2002, Gold, a Montreal native, is working to update the company's image, which was one of her specialties when she ran Avon Products' North America division. Gold for several years served as CEO of the Dallas-based Excel Communications, which uses Avon-style direct-selling methods to market long distance, wireless and other...
...then there was that trip sophomore year to Dartmouth. Or, more precisely, Montreal. There were a pair of Harvard basketball games scheduled against the Big Green in the mid-morning and early afternoon. We young sportswriters thought, well, what fun is there in Hanover, N.H., overnight? Instead, we decided that, since it was reading period, we would drive up to Montreal—some of us had never been—then somehow recover in the morning and head back down to Dartmouth for the games...
Once the partying died down, however, our lives were once again in danger. The designated driver, a fellow sophomore, didn’t know French or downtown Montreal. Combined with the limited visibility, his inability to comprehend that the bright red signs marked “Arrête!” meant “Stop” led to several close calls...
...think I speak for all the sports reporters here when I say that, yes, we travel because it’s fun. There are definitely paid trips to Montreal and Atlantic City and New York that make it worthwhile...