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...twelve months he covered 136 first nights of theater, opera and symphony. Calgary, once just a prairie cow town that was famous for its Calgary Redeye (beer and tomato juice), has become a cosmopolitan community of 550,000. Nearly 60% of the people are not of English-speaking origin, and despite the presence of some 60,000 Americans in the area, the largest ethnic group is German. This is Canada's fastest growing large city. In the past five years, 20 foreign banks have opened offices in Calgary, and last June the Bank of Montreal became the first major...
...Since the action of singling out Iranian students, comprising only 20 percent of the foreign student population in the U.S., for selective harassment by Immigration constitutes what is known as suspect classification" (the casting of blanket suspicion of wrongdoing on a group classified only by race, religion, or national origin...
McLaughlin, with the voice that neither Notre Dame nor Cambridge has yet contaminated from its pristine Bronx origin, is optimistic: "All the returnees are playing better than they did last year." In the Ivies, Penn--last year in the rarefied preserve of the NCAA final four--"has the best talent, but it's inexperienced. And the rest of the league is balanced...
Fishermen have always called it Georges Bank. The origin of its name is obscure, possibly tracing to one of the British kings of colonial times. But its status is clear: it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Located in a West Virginia-sized patch of the Atlantic continental shelf, it harbors a cornucopia of yellowtail, cod and haddock, lobsters and scallops, swordfish and squid-some 200 species in all. Supporting a $1 billion a year fishing industry, it provides 17% of America's saltwater catch, 14% of the world...
...word "Babylon" to describe the modern, U.S.-influenced Jamaican society. The songs on this album emphasize a historical perspective of Marley's battle against Babylon. The album cover features a quote attributed to Marcus Garvey, the late Jamaican black leader: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." The inner-sleeve has a centuries-old diagram illustrating how to best pack black Africans into a slave ship. Marley's songs elaborate on these themes of black exploitation...