Word: toronto
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...opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as the third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story...
...emergency nurse working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital - and die - after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, Toronto...
...working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital--and die--after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done in a birthing center within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, TORONTO...
...athlete to Watch? Few nations outside the U.S. care much for basketball, let alone have LeBron on their "must watch" list. And who outside the U.S. has even heard of Dara Torres? Your parochial article was anything but an insight into the global Games. Alex Holmes, Toronto, New South Wales...
...forgiven. Destiny, though its beginning and ending are literally incendiary, is at heart a ripping yarn with much buckling of swashes, and musical numbers, too. The Other, a hit at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where Chahine received a 50th Anniversary life-achievement award) and at the Toronto and New York fests, is a delirious blast - a politico-romantic amalgam of melodrama and music, at a pace and pitch that Bollywood directors wouldn't dare dream...