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...Cirque du Soleil show that opened last week, is the latest, largest demonstration that the Quebec company--which began as a circus with no animals--has become the gold standard for live entertainment. Like a circus, Kŕ showcases jaw-dropping acrobatic feats, but it cradles them in outsize theatrical wizardry: a huge stage space with many scene changes and a theater designed to suit the show, with side balconies from which the performers can fly over the audience. Like a Broadway show, Kŕ has a plot, a dozen or more characters and a sonorous score. It blends these two forms...
Dallaire fought with UN diplomats who refused to provide adequate support for the peacekeeping mission. After the genocide ended, Dallaire returned to Canada—but the horrors of an African holocaust trailed him home. Dallaire battled a new enemy: post-traumatic stress disorder. In June 2000, Quebec police found Dallaire unconscious on a park bench: he’d consumed a bottle of scotch—which produced a dangerous mixture with his daily dose of prescription psychotropic drugs. By the time police had rushed Dallaire to the hospital, the decorated general had nearly fallen into a coma...
...native of Quebec, Vaillancourt spoke almost no English as of two years ago, but now, by all accounts, communicates flawlessly with her teammates. Vaillancourt has lead her teammates early on by her example in setting aside her highly touted status...
...with rapt attention, they have other, more immediate concerns. In Mansonville, the summer’s top stories are that hardware store owner’s son, Paul, died in a bike accident and that the butcher, Hamelin, has to have surgery again. Unlike Americans, the citizens of rural Quebec do not feel persecuted by crime and terrorism. They live quiet lives for the most part, and don’t find it necessary to rebuild their border stations with reinforced steel. I turn off the main road and descend even further into the wilderness, relieved to know a little...
...Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township of Quebec and had to chop wood in order to get a hot meal...