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Fire damages Cheney's office near White House...
Quebec Premier Jean Charest recently announced a $620 million aid package to help his French-speaking province's ailing manufacturers and has urged the federal government to follow his lead. In the meantime, Mayor Eddie Francis of Windsor, Ont., near Detroit, is trying to cope with an 8.6% unemployment rate in a town known as the automotive capital of Canada. "It's a challenge and we're going to have to get through it," he says. The strong loonie may be great for cross-border shopping excursions, but it's of little help to anyone without a paycheck...
...soon as he saw the trove of letters that had been discovered in a Dumpster near his home, historian Allan Berube knew he would write a book. The missives, written by gay GIs who had met at an Army base in Missouri and stayed in touch throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject...
Ordinary Canadians benefited from cheaper imports just as those who own basaball teams did. Or they headed south. On a crisp day in December, Lorie de Luca boarded a dawn bus full of cross-border shoppers in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ont., bound for Boulevard Mall near Buffalo, N.Y. "I don't shop here anymore," she says, "not when I know I'm going to get better deals...
...periods and came out and played our game in the third, but at that point it was too late.ā€¯The Crimson outshot the Wildcats, 11-2, in the third period and received a late goal off the stick of junior Jenny Brine, but it was not nearly enough to overcome a 4-0 deficit. Harvard is likely to relinquish the No. 1 rank in todayā€™s poll.The Crimson did not look like its formerly undefeated self skating on the Olympic-size rink at UNHā€™s Whittemore Center. Mistakes played a part...