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...CANOE/KAYAK (Sprint) Mylanie Barre, Lac-Beauport, Que. Caroline Brunet, Lac-Beauport, Que. Tamas Buday Jr., Mississauga, Ont. Attila Buday, Mississauga, Ont. Ryan Cuthbert, Carleton Place, Ont. Jillian D'Alessio, Middle Sackville, N.S. Richard Dalton, Halifax Richard Dober Jr., Trois-Rivi?res, Que. Karen Furneaux, Waverley, N.S. Steve Giles, Lake Echo, N.S. Kamini Jain, Calgary Steven Jorens, Aurora, Ont. Carrie Lightbound, Mississauga, Ont. Mike Scarola, Waverley, N.S. Adam van Koeverden, Oakville, Ont. Andrew Willows, Gananoque...
...control pills yet unofficially endorses Viagra, prostituting itself to some warped code of priorities. So men are allowed to bang away while women remain sinners. No wonder thinking Catholic women have become religiously stateless, bound by years of indoctrination but alienated by rampant discrimination in the church. JENNIFER TAIT Waverley, Australia...
...victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates as vulnerable as Napoleon was? MATHEW THURING Glen Waverley, Australia Your story on Gates resembled an episode from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Such details as an income of $30 million a day, a $380,000 Porsche that ended up impounded, a $40 million home overlooking Lake Washington and a billionaire boys' club do not give us insight...
...least as far back as Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, novelists have been interested in setting imaginary characters loose against a background of authentic, tumultuous events. Small wonder. History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly...
...France, it is said, there is only one way to make a bechamel sauce; in Italy, salsa bolognese can be interpreted 50 ways. As Waverley Root observed in The Food of Italy, "While French cooking has become professional cooking even when it is executed by amateurs, Italian cooking has remained basically amateur cooking even when it is executed by professionals. It is, in short, home cooking, la cucina casalinga, human, lighthearted and informal...