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...called it her most exciting moment in physics when her results were subsequently confirmed by Canadian scientists...
John Burns, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, once told me about covering Mao's China. One day in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, Burns was getting his car repaired by a mechanic at the Canadian embassy in Beijing. The mechanic told Burns, "I have been reading your articles." The complacent Burns, expecting a compliment, said, "Oh, really?" The mechanic, not looking up from the engine, said matter-of-factly, "Yeah, they're all complete rubbish, you know. This entire country is a prison, and you don't even know it." Burns was shocked...
...players became instant celebrities on the friendly streets of Lafayette. It helped that French is widely spoken here and that some players had names, like Arsenault and Melanson, that already filled columns of the Lafayette phone book. (Cajuns are among the few Americans who can correctly pronounce the French-Canadian names in a hockey lineup...
...dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming European, Latin American and Canadian investors. But even China's leaders themselves might take issue with Lott's exclusion of Beijing from the communist fold - after all, China remains a one-party state and the party that monopolizes power is unrepentantly communist. And everyone from human rights organizations to the State Department concurs that...
Green has always relied on comedy when confronting adversity. A class clown, he and Ottawa school friends videotaped their fights with security guards who got after them for skateboarding in parking lots. After college, his quirky public-access show was picked up by a Canadian cable channel, and he was touted as the country's next Mike Myers. When he auditioned for MTV in 1998, he slathered himself with shaving cream and went into mock convulsions. "That to me was genius," says MTV programming president Brian Graden. "He delivers attitude and pushes buttons, but he provokes people with a smile...