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A country house for a lifetime of summers (National Post, August 02, 2003)

  • August 2, 2003
'It's strange to be in a country house that isn't held together with duct tape," says my friend Barbara as she appraises the smartly stained exterior of our Laurentian retreat. ("Country house" so...
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A mecca of sun, surf ... and spam (National Post, March 03, 2003)

  • March 3, 2003
Hollywood Beach, where my husband and I spend our annual 10-day reprieve from snowbound Montreal, is the winter mecca of low-to-middlebrow Quebec francophones...
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Betrayed By His Party (November 27, 2003)

  • November 27, 2003
A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, by Senator Zell Miller (Stroud and Hall, 2003) If you’re wondering about that sizzling noise coming fro...
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Book review of Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends (National Post, Jan. 2003)

  • January 1, 2003
    EX-FRIENDS: F...
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Boomers' unhealthy appetite for longevity (National Post, Oct, 15, 2003)

  • October 15, 2003
John Paul II is fading. Reports suggest he will go "gently into that good night" as one would expect from a man of his extraordinary faith. His peace of mind is perhaps reinforce...
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Canada's invisible military (National Post, Nov. 5, 2003)

  • November 5, 2003
Canada’s Invisible Military      Barbara Kay, National Post Published: November 5th 2003 I know doctors in droves, bus...
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Canadians left to twist in the wind (National Post, Sept 15, 2003)

  • September 15, 2003
Like thousands of other Canadians, I have been reading William Sampson's account of his ordeal in Saudi Arabia with the painful mixture of incredulity, fascination, horror, outrage and frustration...
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Christians (National Post, December 24, 2003)

  • December 24, 2003
Merry Christmas! Not Happy Holiday, User-friendly Yule, or Salubrious Solstice. Merry C*h*r*i*s*t mas. I say this with heartfelt goodwill -- as I arrange the Hannukah candles in my m...
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Consider them postmodern valets (November 12, 2003)

  • November 12, 2003
Iain Duncan Smith was recently dumped as leader of Britain's Conservative party. Many claimed it followed upon wage-fiddling complaints concerning his payrolled wife Betsy. Having worked with a pe...
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Detective fiction: A summer escape (National Post, August 19, 2003)

  • August 19, 2003
The new Elizabeth George is in the shops, and I won't wait for the paperback. I must have it immediately, while there are leisure hours enough to enjoy it before Labour Day. The days grow shorter...
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Gays: Coming Out (December 3, 2003)

  • December 3, 2003
Public gender discrimination is over. Popular culture reinforces the general perception of gay social integration. From ‘Will and Grace’ to Queer eyes metrose...
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Giving Birth to new science (National Post, Oct. 01, 2003)

  • October 1, 2003
First-borns are, by a huge statistical margin over later-borns, conscientious, high-achieving, well-organized, and perfectionistic. They remember and even dwell on th...
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Halloween: The trick is on us (National Post, Nov. 29, 2003)

  • November 29, 2003
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Heroism -- Canadian Style (National Post, Sept. 06, 2003)

  • September 6, 2003
The second anniversary of 9/11 won't be as emotionally charged as the first, but the day will be saturated with ritual, speeches and media commentary, as is appropriate for the annual commemoration ...
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I like my food fast, but I won't get fat (National Post, July 15, 2003)

  • July 15, 2003
Sylvie brings our dinner, and it is both hot and crisp, yet soft and melting in the exact right proportions. Sylvie says, "You know what we call you two?" She giggles. "Mr. and Mrs. Pizza Hut." My...
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Judaism and the messianists (National Post, Oct. 08, 2003)

  • October 8, 2003
MONTREAL - Recently the oxymoronically named Jews for Jesus trolled Toronto waters for converts to messianism, then left Canada. So what's Montreal -- chopped liver? Actually JFJ mini-blitzed Mon...
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Kidults should grow up (National Post, December 19, 2003)

  • December 19, 2003
We saw the movie Elf last week, expecting the silliness kids like plus some sly comic winking at adults, like Shrek, Toy Story, and other modern kid-themed movies. But no, it was onl...
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Modern women lack the tyrant's touch (National Post, May 10, 2003)

  • May 10, 2003
I am a member of the last female cohort in western civilization to accept without rancour or rebelliousness the notion that a mother's place was in the home. I was well-educated, as were all of my...
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Muzzle the terrorists in our midst (December 10, 2003)

  • December 10, 2003
You may have missed a recent story on terrorism in Colorado. It didn't make the headlines, even though one person was brutally murdered, with two others injured. The carnage was horrif...
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Poets and war (National Post, March 2003)

  • March 1, 2003
Ars longa, vita brevis. Life is short, but art is long. That was then, when artists stuck to their calling, and to their diverse habitats of stage, screen and study. Now ...
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