SPORTS
WEATHER
THE ARTS
THOUGHT of the YEAR
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The View From Here |
... is usually the back of some kid
we've just delivered to the airport for the next leg of his or her life's journey. This view is of Arran on his way to Barcelona for the Fall 1998 semester of his UofC Architecture programme. During the year we also saw the back of Stefan (many times!) as he left to race and/or train in Chicago, Los Angeles, Japan, Mexico, and finally Victoria, B.C. where he trained with the National Team until leaving for Australia.
Laura's back was in view briefly as she was whisked away by the very efficient drivers at Lake Bryn Mawr Camp in Pennsylvania, where she worked as a summer camp riding instructor, and again in September when we delivered her (and a houseful of furniture) to new digs in Guelph, which she shares with four other science students (two of them also named Laura!)
So few kids. So many backs.
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
This computer is making me CRAZY!
Whose idea was Windows 98, anyway? I was perfectly happy with my old system, which at least got The Times out on time.
This one has a mind of its own ... doesn't like my perfectly good video card so refuses to show me what these photos really look like ...
... NOT TO MENTION the sneaky things it does when I'm not looking ... and without even asking my permission.
And would somebody please make Microsoft and Corel sit down and negotiate a truce to their war, or I'm going to have to send in the bombers. Enough with the GPFs already!
However.
Please do observe the clever layout of this page.
Does it not make Roger look seriously distinguished?
Does it not make him look ... tall?
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The Judge
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Newlyweds
Tricia and Tim (Jan/99)
James and Eshun (Sep/98)
Sophie and Kirk (Aug/98)
and
Ann and Sean (May/98)
have this in common with oldlyweds
Linda and Paul (Aug/97)
and
Joan and Stephen (Jan/96)
they were all tied up in knots .. er, had their marriage knots tied by our resident Hizzoner.
Each of these couples is very special to us -- either longtime friends or the children of longtime friends -- and we want their marriages to live happily ever after.
Which accounts for the shoes.
It is an incontrovertible fact that 100% of the marriages performed by a judge wearing handpainted fish shoes are still intact.
Long may it be so.
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The Judge's Shoes
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The Kids' Page
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Pondering the structural implications
of their world, the architect sits back and advises, while the scientist hauls rocks and stacks them, one upon the other, in an attempt to leave a sign that 'She was here'.
The architect goes away to build room-size models of a redeveloped Barcelona waterfront.
The scientist blithely comments at dinner, "I dissected one of these last week."
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Defying the fates
A broken foot.
A torn calf muscle.
A compressed disc in his spine.
No money.
No job.
No time for friends, for girls, for anything but training.
Deserting sponsors.
Roadblocks put up by the ITU, the COA, the IOC.
His mother's dreams for him.
None of these stop the triathlete from pursuing his goal. Come hell or high water -- and he's seen both! -- he's going to the Olympics.
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The child-substitute speaks
Arf, Laura .. (wag, wag) I missed you so much .. (wag, wag) You shouldn't go away and leave me here alone with the parentals (wag) Only two of them to pet me and brush me and take me for walks (wag) And they won't let me sleep on the bed so I have to lie on the couch and watch TV (wag) but he never clicks on our favourite animal shows.
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The Back Page |
"His own image was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." ... Hans Christian Andersen |
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Feeling nostalgic? Indulge yourself by re-reading another issue from our archives. Or, go back to the future.
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The 1997 Issue |
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