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...Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, millions more came: Germans and Swedes to fish and till the prairies; Ukrainians, now the fourth largest group in Canada, to found towns with unlikely New World names like Dnieper and New Kiev...
...Till now, I trust, your wits are riper...
...Harvard freshmen lost 8-1 to a powerful pride of Tiger Cubs, which had beaten the Princeton varsity, also 8-1, the day before. As Harvard coach Jack Barna by left Tigertown, he could only think, "wait till last year...
...commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware, art treasures. "Wait till you see my wife's wardrobe," said the deputy. "No thank you," replied Costa, "I have seen enough." Within the next few days, he canceled the deputy's mandate and suspended his political rights "for ostentatious and conclusive evidence of corruption...
...some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return to his music academy in mid-August, he was then set upon by the Red Guards and exposed to the humiliation he described in New York...