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British Airways wants Brits to stay home for Olympics
Alastair Grant/AP Photo Businesses advertise to make us buy their product—this is the normal course of things. Brewers don’t applaud the abstemious (except as drivers for drinkers). Condom-makers don’t...
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Caster Semenya: Runner, champion… guinea pig?
Caster Semenya, who'll run the 800-m for South Africa, during the team's press conference in London, on July 27, 2012. (Roger Sedres/Gallo Images) Caster Semenya wants nothing less than the happiest of...
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Aboriginal students: An education underclass
John Woods/CP The two schools sit a mere five kilometres apart as the crow flies, in a rural stretch of Manitoba about four hours west of Winnipeg. Their soccer teams compete every spring. Their...
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The wonderful, tough world of morel pickers
Simon Hayter Each summer hundreds of nomadic pickers prowl Canada’s boreal forests in search of the elusive morel, reports Andrew Sniderman. Click here for a stunning photo gallery of morel hunters at...
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Harper v. The Judges
Sean Kilpatrick/CP Prime Minister Stephen Harper called it “essential.” The judge called it “fundamentally unfair, outrageous, abhorrent and intolerable.” They were both speaking about mandatory...
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Ljubisav ‘Gilbert’ Lazich
Ted Lazich; Photo Illustration by Julia Minameta Ljubisav “Gilbert” Lazich was born on April 9, 1928, in the village of Slobostina in the former Yugoslavia; he was only six months old when his father...
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REVIEW: This is How You Lose Her
This is a beautiful book that somehow manages to talk about a guy with “mad girls in orbit” and a teenage girl with “a big Dominican ass . . . in a fourth dimension beyond jeans” without sacrificing...
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REVIEW: 1982
Jian Ghomeshi, heartthrob musician turned suave CBC radio host, is now indisputably cool, but it was not always thus. In 1982, he was a gangly brown boy in a white Toronto suburb, who idolized David...
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REVIEW: Volcker: the triumph of persistence
The saga of Paul Volcker, perhaps America’s lone unsullied statesman of finance and banking, unfolds in three heroic acts. First, he persuaded “Tricky Dick” Nixon to sever the link between the American...
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REVIEW: Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates
In December 2009, Somali pirates with AK-47s and rocket- propelled grenades interrupted the ocean idyll of a retired British couple on their dream boat. Paul and Rachel Chandler were taken from their...
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REVIEW: There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
In theory, this is a memoir, but the real subject is Nigeria, with Achebe as a bit player in a catastrophe. Students of Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s first and most famous novel about a village being...
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Review: The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
Before Norwegian Roald Amundsen came around, no human had ever set sight on the South or North Poles. Amundsen was born in 1872 and decided as a young man he wanted to be a hero. In the course of his...
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Crime and the new punishment for university students
Peter Dench/GETTY IMAGES University offers most students their first real taste of freedom from home and family, including the freedom to do stupid and illegal things. Even good students can become...
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Review: The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia
Al-Qaeda did not die with Osama bin Laden. The militant Islamist group continues to thrive in Yemen, a corridor of desert and tribes abutting Saudi Arabia in the south of the Arabian peninsula. Johnsen...
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Book review: Ship It Holla Ballas! How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old Dropouts Used...
The online poker boom has come and gone for American gamblers—Washington clamped down in 2011—but it lasted long enough for a crew of savvy young couch potatoes to earn small fortunes. What was the...
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Feral: Rewilding The Land, The Sea, And Human Life By George Monbiot In the first paragraph of his latest book, George Monbiot eats a plump and juicy bug. Specifically: a beetle larva that tasted...
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Janet Malcolm: Essays expose critic at work
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers By Janet Malcolm In this collection of essays, published from 1986 to 2011, New Yorker writer and critic Janet Malcolm explores the biographies and...
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Book Review: A Short History Of Nuclear Folly
A Short History Of Nuclear Folly By Rudolph Herzog Reading about human courtship of nuclear destruction is like watching the wobbles of an amateur tightrope walker: one gawks in terror and amazement....
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Book Review: The world’s greatest piece of cheese
Lorenzo Mosica / Archivolatino / Red The Telling Room: A Tale Of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, And The World’s Greatest Piece Of Cheese By Michael Paterniti Paterniti is a gorgeous writer of sentences, with...
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Book Review: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of...
Frozen In Time: An Epic Story Of Survival And A Modern Quest For Lost Heroes Of World War II By Mitchell Zuckoff If you thought Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan represented an inspiring middle...
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