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...family, Black demonstrated an early flair for entrepreneurship. When he was eight he spent his entire $60 savings on one General Motors share. Later, he sold stolen exams to fellow students at a prestigious Toronto boys' school - and was expelled. At 25, he bought the Sherbrooke Record, a small Quebec paper that began an empire that came to dominate the Canadian newspaper industry. Now that he's sold off what was for a time the empire's crown jewel, what's next? "I'll move opportunistically. I may increase holdings in Europe or in the U.S." The man has been...
Even so, the dreams of an H2O bonanza can be maddeningly elusive. During the past half-century, there have been at least nine proposals for large-scale water diversions from Canada and Alaska, including a $100 billion megaproject to pipe water from James Bay in northern Quebec to the Western U.S. and a bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world...
...depressing. French-Canadian natives are more than happy to sell out their team for a short-term profit. Boston natives take great glee in exploiting the Expos’ current situation while caring nothing about their future. Major League Baseball has shown no outrage at the possibility that Quebec, Eastern Ontario and Northern New England could be left without a local team, leaving the sport with fewer fans in the long run. What’s best for New York isn’t always what’s best for baseball...
...novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize...
...Still, he certainly seems much more comfortable in the role than he did in Mexico or Quebec City. In the press conference he was throwing around terms with which he would not have been very comfortable a few months ago. That, and his strong physical presence reflect a degree of self-confidence in dealing with foreign policy issues that we haven't seen before...