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...dark-walnut-paneled Ottawa courtroom was packed with government lawyers, bureaucrats and a few curious law students last week as the nine black-robed justices of Canada's Supreme Court filed in to deliver a historic verdict on the country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister...
...design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked door...
...Pont's top officers immediately huddled at their Wilmington, Del., headquarters to size up the new Seagram challenge. During a marathon session in the walnut-paneled executive committee room, Chairman Jefferson exhorted his troops: "Du Pont is a strong company, and we're going into this thing...
Breaststroker David Lundberg's teammates on the Walnut Creek Swim Club should have presented him with a special award after the U.S. National Swimming Championships last weekend at Blodgett Pool. The Provo, Utah, native not only finished in the top 16 in three events, but he also led his teammates to some of the finest restaurants in the Boston area...
After arriving at his decision, Lundberg enrolled in math, physics and religion courses at Brigham Young University. Then, in March, he went to visit Rick Millington, his coach at Walnut Creek, who suggested that he re-enter the swimming world and begin training for the nationals, which were only a month away...