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...fact is that the presidency has so many facets that its millions of viewers ?and the world's press?can pick up just about any glint they want. Collections of these glimpses, such as Woolen's, can be accurate in detail but in the whole mosaic gravely exaggerate a President's traits while failing to consider inevitable forces of the office that require his resistance. Hardly had Powell's ire cooled than other columnists were citing certain parallels between Carter and Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone...
...Plains of Abraham in 1759 the French played the major role in developing the territory now known as Canada. In the tradition of British colonialism, the vanquished French were allowed to exist alongside their conquerors, maintaining their own language, religion, and culture. As a result Canada became a cultural mosaic in which separate nationalities constituted distinct but integral parts. This cultural mosaic worked well enough to result in the emergence of Canadian Confederation...
Although most Canadians still consider their mosaic experiment successful, English-French differences have spawned inevitable problems, some of which may cause the dissolution of the 110-year-old Canadian nation...
...language differences. "It doesn't matter which one you scratch, you find a French-Canadian nationalist," he said last week, refering to French-Canadian Quebecers. "They look upon Quebec and themselves as a separate nation. They do not see themselves culturally or ethnically as part of the English-speaking mosaic of the rest of the country...
...This is one piece of a large mosaic of data and not a general approval of marijuana use by any means," he said...