Word: quebecers
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ALEXANDER E. BLANK ’09 of Montreal, Quebec and Adams House Information Technology Chair...
...telescope sits on the lawn outside Vachon Pavilion at Quebec's Laval University, its gently concave 40-in.-diameter mirror pointing at the sky. Concentrating and reflecting faint starlight into a camera mounted above it, the gleaming face of the mirror seems devoid of the slightest imperfection; it is so smooth, in fact, that it looks solid...
...last year, Royal has had a penchant for saying almost nothing on traditional campaign topics, but launching missiles of iconoclasm where least expected. Earlier this week, she managed the difficult trick of enraging even Canada, when she offered an endorsement of what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting over Royal's penchant for being "extremely...
...over the U.S. squad, which incidentally included Harvard stalwarts Chu and Cahow, at the tender age of 19.“It’s not easy for international players to come here, not knowing that much English,” said Vaillancourt, who hails from French-speaking Quebec. “I know what she’s going through. She’s awesome.”But it was the Crimson’s Martin who got the better of the battle, allowing only one goal on 20 shots in a 3-1 win. Her counterpart made...
...coming into the convention, the remaining two in the leading pack of candidates are St?phane Dion and Gerard Kennedy. Dion is a 51-year-old political science professor and former federal environment minister that then Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien recruited as his national unity crusader following the nearly disastrous Quebec independence referendum of 1995. Dion and Kennedy, a 46-year-old former Ontario education minister, are battling it out for third place. A Decima Research poll on the eve of the convention found that Rae led all four when respondents were asked which candidate they thought would do better against...