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...become more compartmentalized and end up relying more and more on computers in virtually every aspect of our lives. Today I sit cloaked in a grim sense of defeat. I feel myself staring blankly into my glaring monitor, mumbling in quavering tones, "Long live Big Brother." JANE WANKLIN London, Ont...
Around the turn of the century, a little girl named Evelyn Dougherty migrated with her family from a hardscrabble farm near Sarnia, Ont., to central Michigan. The journey looms large in the consciousness of her grandson, Michigan Governor John Engler. "We should never forget how much of this state was settled by immigrants from the north," he observed in his airy office across the street from the state capitol building in Lansing. Engler is not about to develop amnesia. His ambitious economic plans for Michigan depend in no small part on the intimate connections forged between his state...
...signed in 1965, the two places have been economically intertwined. Last year two-way trade between Ontario and Michigan amounted to an astonishing $52 billion, much of it related to the automotive industry. The so-called automotive alley of assembly plants and partsmakers that stretches from Toronto and London, Ont., to Detroit is one of the world auto industry's most productive centers. But autos are nothing like the whole picture. Energy exports, shipping and other transportation links across the Great Lakes and a growing e-commerce further cement the relationship. "There is no place else in the world where...
...also be proud of the U.S.'s not paying its U.N. bills, of foisting the Ken Starr fiasco upon the nation and of resisting gun-control measures so that those N.R.A. contributions can keep coming in. Tells you something about their agenda, doesn't it? JURIS MAZUTIS Nepean, Ont...
...never been his own man, relying too heavily on polls, as Clinton does. That is anathema to leadership. Restoring America as the cure-all for the free world's problems will be of benefit not only to Americans but also to everyone else around the globe. MIKE BOUCHARD Burlington, Ont...