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...adapting a work of art is to allow for its universal themes to emerge in a context readily identifiable and relevant for audiences. In transporting the action of George Bizet’s opera Carmen from 19th-century Seville to the tumultuous backdrop of the free trade protests in Quebec and post-September 11 Wall Street, Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) new adaptation fails to shed light on the complex, weighty issues of free trade and globalization, while confusing and compromising the dramatic appeal of the opera itself
...continent and several worlds away. Sale grew up in the western province of Alberta, strapped on her first pair of skates before her second birthday and at age 8 announced to her mother that she was Olympic material; Pelletier played hockey in a small town in French-speaking Quebec and as a child thought figure skating too girlie...
...would close its large manufacturing plant in the city and shed more than 1,000 jobs; it will outsource candymaking to Argentina's Grupo Arcor. Kraft Foods, meanwhile, intends to close its Holland, Mich., manufacturing facility for Life Savers next year, and plans to make the iconic candy in Quebec, where sugar sells at market rates. You might think the loss of jobs would prompt Congress to reconsider its protectionist policies. But you would be wrong...
Atwood returned to Harvard last week to speak give a lecture titled “How I Became a Writer.” She began with her family history, then moved on to her childhood in northern Quebec and later Toronto, a time where she “read everything I could get my hands on.” Atwood placed the “literature” of her childhood into three categories: “acceptable” books read for school, “acceptable” books read out of school and, finally, True Romance novels...
...Crimson must also make up for the loss of defensemen Jesse Lane. The freshman abruptly decided to leave school to enter Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, essentially an independent developmental league for aspiring-NHL players. Lane announced his decision to leave school earlier this week and played for his new team the same night...