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December 2004/January 2005

Wendy Dennis ponders the realities of modern marriage; Andrea Mandel-Campbell warns that Canada may be losing its claim to the North; Ahmet Sel photographs the people of Kabul; Paul Webster sounds an alarm about fire retardants; Donna Morrissey remembers a snowy drive with her father . . .

December 2004/January 2005 / Education

From Sir, With Love

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Wayne Johnston

Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, where author Wayne Johnston is a “distinguished professor of creative writing.” / Image courtesy of Hollins University roanoke, virginia—I was recently offered and accepted a …

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December 2004/January 2005 / Society

A Very Civil War

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

Prime Minister Paul Martin is trying to articulate a vision that will knit Canadians together and push the Liberals to majority status in the next election

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December 2004/January 2005 / World

An Israeli’s Life

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Gilad Grossman

Author Gilad Grossman (centre) with his mother and brothers Amit (left) and Ari (right), in Gesher Haziv kibbutz. /Courtesy of Gilad Grossman herzliya, israel—Here I sit, in the heat and …

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December 2004/January 2005

A Truthful Mind

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Mark Lombardi

New York-based visual artist Mark Lombardi spent his career tracing the intricate international webs that link world leaders and financial institutions with arms dealers, drug lords, and bagmen. Lombardi, who …

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Paul Martin
December 2004/January 2005 / Politics

The Names of Our Lives

December 12, 2004July 16, 2019 - by Fraser Sutherland

Will the real Paul Martin please stand up

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December 2004/January 2005

The Wilcox Manuscripts

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Mark Abley

Père Murray teaching a class at Notre Dame library in Saskatchewan, c.1950. / Image courtesy of Athol Murray College of Notre Dame Archives wilcox, saskatchewan—Here are a few things you’ll …

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December 2004/January 2005 / World

Midnight in Moscow

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Stephen Handelman

Russian President Vladimir Putin in his home, Novo-Ogaryovo. / Photograph by Dmitry Lekay/Kommersant moscow—When he’s in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin lives in a forested compound complete with stables and …

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Arts & Culture / December 2004/January 2005

Time Machine

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Michael Wesely

“This photograph is telling the story of constructing the new Museum of Modern Art in New York. All the phases are there, but not visible in the way we’re used …

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Books / December 2004/January 2005

Burning Man

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Books discussed in this essay An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 320 pp., $36 Buddha by Karen Armstrong Penguin 205 …

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December 2004/January 2005

The Mystery of Marriage

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Wendy Dennis

Half of modern unions end in divorce or separation. Is it just us? Or does the institution itself need to be reconsidered?

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