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...ousted the dictatorial government in January of that year. By March of 1959, Castro had accepted an invitation to speak at the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ annual convention in Washington D.C. He then planned an 11-day tour of North America, speaking in New York, Montreal, and at Harvard.Although Castro may have initially been invited to the United States by a private organization, he chose to speak at universities because he said, “that is where you find the real ‘military spirit,’ in students, not in the barracks...
...among drug addicts in New York City have found that new infection rates dropped more than 75% after city and community activists expanded clean-needle programs, beginning in the early 1990s, and later legalized possession of needles. Likewise, needle-exchange programs in other cities, including - after a rocky start - Montreal and Vancouver, had similarly significant impact. So, why has the federal funding ban on these programs, enacted by Congress in 1988, remained intact for two decades...
...watch 60 minutes of the most in-shape athletes on the planet rocketing across the surface of a giant diamond. • People literally walk on water! Last guy to popularize water-walking got a religion built around him. That guy was Rocket Richard; the religion is the Montreal Canadiens. • It's safely homoerotic for the hetero man: dudes in this game touch and rub up against each other constantly and straight guys scream for more. Woof! • The humility inherent in the sport: they make themselves more available to the press than any other athletes and always talk about...
...fellow for Dramatic Arts 127: “Rite of Spring at the Nexus of Artand Ritual.” The creator of this class, visiting lecturer Christine W. Dakin, will be sending Chin to her program, Danzefest, in Italy. In June, Chin will also be attending Springboard Danse Montreal, a program founded by a Julliard professor that accepts just 60 dancers from the country’s best conservatories. Despite the many artistic opportunities coming her way, Chin remains grounded and humbled by the Harvard community. “For me the biggest element is to know that...
...Canada's telecom industry has been a cautionary tale. It's now increasingly likely that Nortel Networks Corp., the biggest maker of telephone equipment on the continent, will emerge from bankruptcy stripped of many of its most valuable assets along with its ambitions to be a world beater. Meanwhile, Montreal-based BCE Inc., parent of the country's biggest telco, Bell Canada, has continued its slide since a record $42.1 billion deal to privatize the company was abruptly killed in the final weeks...