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Our Faces, Our Selves
Christopher Stevenson The use of composite drawings based on eyewitness accounts for identifying criminals has its origins in the nineteenth century, but the first commercially available system—one not dependent upon…
Read MoreReview: What Is America?
America’s primal myth is about freedom, self-determination, and self-reinvention, about breaking the shackles of history and forging a new identity and life. This is the America of John Winthrop’s City…
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Cellphone Games
Daniel Shattuck calls himself a soldier, and you might assume as much from his shaved head and six-foot, 210-pound frame. But he’s never been in the armed forces. Instead, Shattuck…
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Sink or Swim
When I was fourteen, I only cared about one thing: making the Nova Scotia swim team for the Canada Games, a nationwide mini-Olympics held every four years for young athletes…
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A Land Apart
West Galip Karayigit was bursting at the seams, both sartorially and emotionally, as he held on to the statue of Atatürk at the centre of Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Four more…
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The Other Darwin
Darwin’s time has come again. Heralded by new biographies and editions of his works, a dual anniversary looms: 2009 will mark 200 years since his birth, and 150 years since…
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The Quiet Art of Cartooning
Cartooning is a solitary pursuit. The cartoonist sits alone at a drawing table for most of his life, struggling with himself and his past in an attempt to create something…
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The World’s Best Car Bombers?
When reports from US and Canadian intelligence sources surfaced in late June claiming that Hezbollah, a Lebanese political and paramilitary movement which the Canadian government calls a terrorist organization, was…
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Power Play
On August 14, 2003, my lawnmower died. It was 4:10 pm and the perfect weather for gardening. Suspecting a simple neighbourhood brownout, I resigned myself to reading in the afternoon…
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