Word: secessionism
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A day after Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau announced his resignation over barely losing the secession referendum, it looks as though Canada may soon be dealing with an even more formidable separatist. Leaders of the Parti Quebecois are already trying to revive their push for secession under the banner of Lucien...
Joel L. Negin '99 crystallized the feeling of many of those in the room, who said they were relieved that the secession had been defeated but were worried by the narrow margin.
The country, almost without knowing where it was going, has wandered down unpaved roads that vanish into swampland. The Farrakhan march--warmhearted, festive, lovely in its way--was a sort of culminating symptom. On respectable op-ed pages, writers have been suggesting that we might as well consider breaking off...
EDWARD HOPPER DIED in 1967, nearly 30 years ago, but he remains one of those artists whose work--no matter how familiar and often reproduced it has become--comes up fresh whenever you see it. This diffident son of a Nyack, New York, dry-goods merchant had a long working...
Yet paradoxically, we see in this country widening gaps in economic strata, the largest such gap in all of the industrialized world and the de facto secession of the wealthiest from public life. But from my vantage point, the most serious challenge facing the United States will be the fallout...