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...Canada's economy barely wavered. Along with the loonie, output, employment and Canadians' deservedly inflated pride all flew steadily in the face of a global credit crisis. In fact, the most remarkable thing about the loonie's ascent may be how handily Canadians handled it - notwithstanding the odd hurled book. Just imagine if in 2002 someone had prophesied today's exchange rates. "I think we [all] would have concluded that the Canadian economy would be decimated," says Don Drummond at TD. "We have thrived through this." It's a good thing, too. The loonie may be flying high...
...will be able to go to good schools, there's affordable health care and good paying jobs. If they temporarily located to another community that has those things, you can't reasonably ask them to give up those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity...
...city of Cambridge itself has continued its custom of festooning Harvard Square with strings of lights. Overhanging Massachusetts Avenue at various locations, peculiar whirlpool-shaped designs shed blurs of light on the automobiles and pedestrians passing below. These odd illuminations alert visitors and residents alike of some impending festive occasion, but remain ambiguous as to what that occasion might be. Lights during December traditionally signal Christmas, even when arranged in no particular pattern, but the Cambridge decorations seem to imply some other holiday by their strangeness: something new, something different, something starkly conscious of a Christian heritage they carefully avoid...
...It’s an odd sport to watch in the northeast,” said the Pennsylvania native...
...been an odd campaign for Democrats. The leading candidates are pretty much in agreement on what the big issues are--a new multilateralism overseas, a more comprehensive health-insurance system, the need to address global warming and the hope that the search for new energy sources will create new jobs--and on how to solve them. Edwards gets credit for laying out his dramatic plans first, especially for health care and global warming. Clinton gets credit for the smartest, most detailed plans. Senator Joe Biden gets credit for the unadorned, and short-winded, wit and intelligence of his debate performances...