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Singles ads for the superannuated (National Post, June 20, 2003)

  • June 20, 2003
All of a sudden the magazine Modern Maturity is offering tips you find curiously useful, and that's one sign. But there's a more sombre indication that you've reached the descending slope of middl...
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So there's this Italian, this German and... (National Post, July 21, 2003)

  • July 21, 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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T-shirt messaging brooks no dissent (National Post, Oct. 22, 2003)

  • October 22, 2003
T-Shirt Messaging Brooks no Dissent Barbara Kay, National Post Published: October 22nd 2003 Like other writers, desperate for grist to the mill, I a...
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The Democrats are slipping into impotency (National Post, December 31, 2003)

  • December 31, 2003
American presidential campaigns seem to go on forever. It seems like years, not months, that the nine Democratic contenders have been racing for the nomination. I have some liberal,...
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The Leacock debate (University of Toronto, Wed. Feb. 26, 2003)

  • February 26, 2003
The Leacock Debate Wed., Feb. 26, 2003 Hart House, University of Toronto The motion: A woman's proper place is in the kitchen For the affirmative side, Barbara Kay It is in...
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The top rung of the humour ladder (National Post, Sept. 25, 2003)

  • September 25, 2003
Woody Allen once said, "I don't think being funny is anyone's first choice." He was wrong. I got hooked on the "ecstasy" of comedy at seven, when my father woke me at 2 a.m. to entertain party gues...
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We built this altar, but will they come? (National Post, July 07, 2003)

  • July 7, 2003
If you build it, they will come. It worked for the baseball diamond in the movie Field of Dreams, but apparently it doesn't work for gays. Weeks after an Ontario court invited gays to wed, a decis...
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Why do we make good girls dress bad? (National Post, August 11, 2003)

  • August 11, 2003
In the style section of the New York Times a few weeks ago, a layout was entitled: "The Mirror has Two Faces: Fall fashion addresses that great cultural dichotomy -- good girl or bad?" An immigran...
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