Word: toronto
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...line could just as easily have been sung by Young, who throughout his career has shown a willingness to cut things loose and make new starts. He was born in Toronto, where he was a folk singer in the early '60s before moving to the States. Although he came of age as a man and a musician during a chaotic era, he claims that times are tougher now: "It was a breeze in the '60s to grow up, compared to [the '90s]. The '60s were so open-ended. The dream was still there, the no-matter-what- you-could-make...
...rules for air-show activities. Too many good pilots have been killed over the years practicing for them. A great many accidents could be prevented by prohibiting dangerous maneuvers for air shows. Men and women of the military should not have to die for our enjoyment. BRENDAN D. GABIS Toronto...
HOSPITALIZED. BILLY GRAHAM, 76, silver-maned Christian evangelist; for flu symptoms and a bleeding colon, after slumping to the podium in mid-sermon; in Toronto...
...Then how about Arnold Schwarzenegger?" asks the unflappable Eugene. The Toronto-born businessman is something of an eccentric. He dabbled in the video-game business (his biggest hit: an arcade game called Ooze) but left the industry deciding it had "too much gratuitous violence." The idea of gambling over the Internet came to him last year in a moment he describes as an epiphany. According to Eugene, he was "chosen" to open the first gambling den on the electronic frontier. He is convinced that in another life he was the founder of New York City's famous Stork Club...
Brown herself credits much of her success, bothon-stage and off, to her family. Born and raisedin Toronto by an Irish mother and American father,she remains close to her parents and to herbrother, Nicholas, and sister, Victoria, both ofwhom...