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Fiction / June 2005

If Things Happen for a Reason

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …

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June 2005 / Poetry

Among a Lot of Poems

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Jacques Roubaud

Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …

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June 2005 / Poetry

It

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by A.F. Moritz

I love to see you draw the hammer back. It pauses there up in the air, a bird behind your ear hovering to survey a vast country for one spot, …

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June 2005

Frontiers Of Flavour

June 12, 2005June 15, 2020 - by Nelson Handel

A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste

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June 2005

Totally Genius

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Dan Falk

The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?

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June 2005

The Peace Wager

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Kathy Cook

As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?

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June 2005

Under the Sheltering Crescent Moon

June 12, 2005May 25, 2020 - by Ray Conlogue

Can our nation’s multiculturalism embrace Islamic radicals and reformers?

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Illustration by Leif Parsons
June 2005 / Politics

Desperately Seeking Ideas

June 12, 2005July 26, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues

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June 2005 / Sports

To Catch a Fish

June 12, 2005May 25, 2020 - by John DeMont

The perfect escape is just a gasoline slick away for the dedicated urban angler

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June 2005 / Society

Striking Back at the Empire

June 12, 2005May 25, 2020 - by Andrew Clark 

How comedians throughout history have raged against the machine

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