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...Liberals have held nearly unbroken power for most of the 20th century - a record that bolstered their claim to be the "natural" party of government. But even natural parties come to a natural end. The tipping point came from disclosures in 2004 that funds from a $250 million federal scheme to buy the loyalty of separatist-leaning Francophones in Quebec were siphoned off in illegal kickbacks to Liberal Party operatives. Opposition parties competed in expressions of high dudgeon. "This is a dark time for democracy in Canada," declared Jack Layton, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party. The first...
...Carl Jr.’s ads with Paris Hilton. On second thought, don’t.In wholly unrelated news, a team of Harvard students tried to bring two zebras to the Square a couple of months ago. (The group came to believe later that this ill-fated scheme somehow entitled them to opinine on the Undergraduate Council elections.) Some commented that the zebras were being gathered as part of an effort to build an arc for the second coming of Noah’s flood. But being the dedicated researchers we are, we noticed it has only rained about...
...That scheme had come to seem impossibly harsh. Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has performed many baptisms: "My idea of God is not a God who would condemn a baby to an imperfect life for eternity." Many priests have downplayed limbo out of similar concerns, and Martin lauds the Vatican panel for "bringing theological development in line with pastoral application...
...government relations, argued that it might be nice to make some friends there. When the Administration said money was tight, the policy experts scoured the NGO world and came back touting small programs with clear ways to measure progress. When the issue of corruption was raised, DATA proposed a scheme to nurture good governance. ("Start-up funds for new democracies, sir," was how Bono pitched it to the President.) In its relentlessness and flexibility, DATA had assumed the personality of its founder...
...make like a young Che Guevara and hop on a motorcycle to see what the world is made of? London marketing exec Simon Smith got that itch in 1999 and went scuffing around India to recalibrate his life. And the product of his two years of soul searching? A scheme he started in 2003 to help others to find their inner Che - and do some good along the way. Every February, Smith, an avid biker, leads 120 or so riders on the Enduro India tour, a two-week, 2,500-km motorcycle trek from Goa to Cochin Loh and Behold...