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-------------------- Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go So make the best of this test, and don't ask why It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right I hope you had the time of your life So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind Hang it on a shelf in good

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--------------------We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.— Robert Wilensky--------------------

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--------------------to "celebrate" Call Day...FROM: Anonymous LawyerTO: All partners, associates, e-mail correspondents, support slavesRE: Required readingAnnouncing a temporary change to the firm's long-standing policy that employees are not allowed to read anything besides lease agreements. Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel hit stores this week and is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble,

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--------------------Our firm was founded in 1908 by 13 lawyers who believed that the practice of law did not have to be merely one aspect of an attorney’s life but that it offered enough rewards – mentally, spiritually and financially – that it was all a person needed to live a complete existence. Our commitment to this ideal has driven us throughout our 98-year history, and continues to guide us

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--------------------I am sure that all the Canadians who have managed to get out of Lebanon must be heaving sighs of relief that they are on their way back home to safety. But the media have been full of reports showing angry and tired people who feel that our government has not done enough to get them out of Lebanon.Unfortunately, their comments irritate and anger many of us, so I would like to

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--------------------I'm afraid I can't really offer an opinion either way. Being born in 1982, I'm simply one of the many who have been dropped in the middle of this long and bloody political story. Moreover, being an outsider to the narrative, it seems one couldn't escape charges of anti-Semitism or anti-Muslimism (is that a word?) should one offer an opinion one way or the other.So I sit idly

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--------------------Jeremiah Thomas Saguil was born on July 11, 2006 =)--------------------

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--------------------Staff at the British office of Information Builders (IBI) tracked a string of alternative statistics during Germany 2006, including dives, feigned injuries, referee intimidation, and tantrums. According to their findings from watching TV broadcasts of the games, Italy leads in dives (32), France in tantrums (28), and Paraguay in fake injuries (12). Croatia, France, Italy and

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--------------------What's been on display during the World Cup hasn't been anything nearly so exciting as alleged plots to blow up buildings and behead the Prime Minister. But because it's involved thousands of normal, well-adjusted people, it's far more useful for assessing social trends.What's been on display has been an aggressive brand of tribalism. It would have been a deeply uncomfortable

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--------------------The next time a Christian partisan shouts a Bible verse at you — as if citing Leviticus 18:22, Exodus 20:13 or 1 Corinthians 7:4 ended all discussion of homosexuality, abortion or women's rights — shout back, "Acts 4:32-35!"That's the passage that might have inspired Karl Marx: "No one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common,"

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--------------------*sigh*All hope is on France now... Allez Les Bleus!!!--------------------

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--------------------To get Canadians thinking about the challenges our country will face over the coming decades, the Dominion Institute - in partnership with the CBC, La Presse and The Toronto Star - has brought together twenty top thinkers to kick off a debate about what issues, events or trends could fundamentally transform Canada by the year 2020.What for example would Canada look like if oil

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--------------------How to cope with loss?Psychologists say you first have to experience the emotion of loss to process it properly. After more than 40 years of hurt, some may say England fans have certainly done that. On Saturday at the campsite in Gelsenkirchen, decorated with a scatter of St. George's crosses, hopes were raised, hearts were packed with expectation, tents were pitched and

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--------------------This Canada Day weekend, in light of recent events, it might be worthwhile to ask what it's like to be part of an ethnic minority in Canada.The experience may depend hugely on where you came from originally, what you look like, how the media view you and whether your ethnic community has a voice in the political arena. The Diversity in Canada survey, conducted among 3,000

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--------------------"It's not about playing beautiful football. It's about getting a result. I watched the Ivory Coast in their first game against Argentina, and I thought, 'This is a wonderful team. They play beautiful football.' And now they're home, watching us."— Owen Hargreaves--------------------

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--------------------Another questionable call in this World Cup showed Italy the way to the quarter-final yesterday, giving the Italians a penalty kick that Francesco Totti converted for the 1-0 win as time expired. Moments earlier, Italy's Fabio Grosso was dribbling a few strides from the goalmouth when Lucas Neill slid in front of him. The Italian cut in Neill's direction and tried to leap

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--------------------It has become fashionable to apologize, and this is particularly true with respect to historical wrongs which, since they involve actions of others, long dead, and hence are free of any personal culpability, are apologies that are inherently easy to make. We have seen Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, apologize for British indifference to the potato famine of the 1840s.

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--------------------On June 19, 2006 the Board of Governors of York University approved a three-year tuition fee schedule to commence in the 2006-07 academic year. This new fee structure will replace the original fee structure approved by the Board for Osgoode in June, 2004. Pursuant to this new fee schedule, fees for entering students will increase by 8% annually and fees for students

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--------------------today is the official kick-off of Toronto's Pride Week... the theme this year is "Fearless"... is Joseph Briante just that, or did he expect too much "freedom" or "diversity" from his corporate masters?When Joseph Briante sent an emotional e-mail last week to more than 100 fellow lawyers at the Vancouver office of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, he wrote that he wanted to put

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--------------------The rather worn cliché that sport is war without guns, that our support and loyalty to our teams and nations is our modern-day expression of our tribal roots, happens to be true. If fundamentalists would just play sports instead of assassinating tennis players for wearing shorts, no doubt they'd spend less time flying planes into buildings.Last week, the biggest sporting event

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--------------------Today is the anniversary of the Magna Carta, the English charter signed by King John on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede. The King -- who had just lost in battle against his English barons -- promised to respect his subjects' rights and agreed to be bound by the rule of law. In 1911, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the momentous occasion.At Runnymede, at Runnymede,What say the

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--------------------Faced with the inability of bickering attorneys to resolve even the most innocuous scheduling questions without his intervention, a Florida judge ordered the two to meet on the steps of the federal courthouse and resolve their latest quarrel by playing "one (1) game of 'rock, paper, scissors.'"Judge Gregory A. Presnell of Orlando ordered the unusual measure, which he

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--------------------You're the first in my lifeTo make me think that we might go all the wayAnd I want you to know that we're hanging onThey'll come and yes they'll try to break us downBut we know that we cannot loseIf we keep moving forward and don't look backWith the world at your feetThere's no one you can't beatYes it can be doneWith the world at your feetThere's no height you can't reachThis

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--------------------If Canada is the world in one place, as it proudly claims, what kind of a place is it becoming? In the troubling aftermath of 17 Toronto "terrorism" arrests, the answer is both dramatically different and depressingly familiar.Just for a moment, turn a few hundred years of Western civilization on its head and presume the teenagers and men appearing in court today are not

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--------------------on the arrests of terrorism suspects in Ontario this weekend..."Every person charged with an offence is presumed to be innocent, unless and until Crown counsel has proven his/her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The indictment is only a formal accusation or charge. It tells the person charged what specific crime Crown counsel alleges that the person charged committed. The

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--------------------One recent Friday, I attended an Iranian Canadian event in Toronto where I was, perhaps, the only non-white, non-Iranian among the 1,000 immaculately turned out guests. When I asked friends at the table why there were no black, Chinese or Arabs at the event, I drew blank stares of bewilderment. Unsaid, but easily understood in the silence was the answer: "Why would a Chinese

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--------------------I decide to water my lawn. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice the mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table and notice that the

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--------------------How is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of

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--------------------Since taking over The Daily Show in 1999, Stewart's cut-the-crap humour and endless send-ups of politicians and the world they inhabit have made him a force to be reckoned with in American politics. He has been on the cover of Newsweek and won Emmy awards. His U.S. audience has doubled in the last five years, to 1.3 million. In Canada, his ratings are also on the rise, with

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--------------------Finishing a year as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the summer of 2005, Joshua Klein had his pick of high-powered jobs. The firm he settled on, Baker & Botts, offered him a congenial atmosphere and an opportunity to get trial experience. It didn't hurt that there was a hefty signing bonus, too."Around $200,000" was considered "market rate," Klein says.Now, as

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--------------------Prime Minister Stephen Harper reflects on his first 100 days in office...--------------------

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--------------------just saw the show last weekend... Richard Ouzonian's review is right on the money:"Even if you've never owned an album by 'NSync, you'll find plenty to laugh at in Boygroove, the 80-minute pop culture romp currently running at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto. Author Chris Craddock has cleverly catalogued the rise and fall of four feckless young men who become superstars, with

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--------------------It all began as a lunchroom dispute over a grade 2 student's table manners, but has now escalated into an international cause célèbre with Filipino authorities accusing a Montreal school board of insulting their country's culture. The case of 7-year-old Luc Cagadoc has become front-page news in his parents' native Philippines and a Quebec-based rights group says it will haul a

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--------------------Childs v. Desormeaux, 2006 SCC 18 (per McLachlin CJ for a unanimous Court):"Social hosts of parties where alcohol is served do not owe a duty of care to public users of highways. The proximity necessary to meet the first stage of the Anns test has not been established. First, the injury to Childs was not reasonably foreseeable on the facts established in this case. There was

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--------------------Dear Mr. Leno,My name is Jeff Whitty. I live in New York City. I'm a playwright and the author of Avenue Q, which is a musical currently running on Broadway. I've been watching your show a bit, and I'd like to make an observation:When you think of gay people, it's funny. They're funny folks. They wear leather. They like Judy Garland. They like disco music. They're sort of like

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--------------------Much has been made about the new style of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister. He is different from several immediate predecessors in how he conducts himself and how he relates to his cabinet and Parliament. The clue to his behaviour may be that Harper really wishes that he were president of Canada. Harper seems to take the U.S. presidency as his model, where the president is

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--------------------The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court engage 42 law clerks each year to conduct research on files to be heard by the judges of the Courts. Each judge of the Courts has a law clerk -- one of whom will be yours truly in 2007-2008.The work performed by the law clerks includes preparing legal memoranda on court files prior to the hearing of the case, researching

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--------------------Health care is meant to be open to everyone equally. But some doctors question, even deny, treatment to those with certain vices. At issue: health care for patients with self-destructive vices -- overeating, smoking, drinking or drugs. More and more doctors are turning them away or knocking them down their waiting lists -- whether patients know that's the reason or not.

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--------------------The Queen will turn 80 on 21 April 2006 and will celebrate her official birthday on 17 June 2006. This web site celebrates Her Majesty's life and times and provides information about events taking place to celebrate her birthdays.--------------------

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--------------------pro·cras·ti·nate (pr-krst-nt, pr-)v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates v. intr. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.v. tr. To postpone or delay needlessly.[Latin prcrstinre, prcrstint- : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + crstinus, of tomorrow (from crs, tomorrow).]pro·crasti·nator n.pro·crasti·nation n.------------

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--------------------Greenhouse-gas emissions are clogging up the atmosphere. Children are forced to work in mines using dangerous machinery. Tomatoes are being modified to look more tomatoey. One night you get fed up. You can't just watch everything go down the tubes. It's time to take a stand; every choice you make tomorrow will be environmentally friendly and socially responsible.But will it

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--------------------"Transparency makes politics a running argument about decision-making, not about decisions."— William J. StuntzAccountability implies that people take responsibility and are held liable for their actions. Ethics refers to standards of conduct and one's moral judgment. Legislation may address the former but it takes character and integrity to satisfy the latter. No law will

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--------------------i'd do to him what they do to judges in South Dakota...Supreme Court justices need not be hermits. No one expects them to dwell in a bubble, never venturing out in public or speaking their minds on legal topics before bar groups. But justices do have a duty to avoid off-the-bench behavior hurtful to the court's reputation and mission, which Justice Antonin Scalia, sad to say,

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--------------------"When one is immersed in his own law, in his own country, unable to see things from without, he has a psychologically unavoidable tendency to consider as natural, as necessary, as given by God, things which are simply due to historical accident or temporary social situation."— Pierre LepaulleLaw students from more than 500 schools across 90 countries were gathered last week in

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--------------------The increasing tendency to overlook the many identities that any human being has and to try to classify individuals according to a single allegedly pre-eminent religious identity is an intellectual confusion that can animate dangerous divisiveness. An Islamist instigator of violence against infidels may want Muslims to forget that they have any identity other than being

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--------------------on the rush to select a new leader for the Liberal party:Power without purpose is not worth achieving. And a party without vision will not get elected. It is a lesson that should have been learned after the last campaign. The fact that it was not is a clear indicator that a comprehensive renewal process is necessary. Instead of choosing a path that addressed public concerns

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--------------------“News that gay men can be sperm donors must be welcome to couples requiring assisted reproductive technology. However, evidence is accumulating that sexual orientation is the result of gene-environment interaction; sexual orientation has a heritable component. Thus, using sperm from gay donors may have the potential of passing the gay gene(s) to the next generation. Patients

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--------------------so i'm sitting here in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., blocks away from the White House and the U.S. Capitol... ironically, i'm here for a competition and conference on international law... i wonder if George Bush and his crew ever really stop to think about these issues when they sip their morning coffee... part of me wants to trust that they do... and yet...i, for one,

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--------------------i'm not sure if i'd back this idea... first, it'd be a slippery slope to the hapless two-party system that the Americans have... politics and public policy is too complex to be subsumed under a simple "left vs. right" dichotomy... second, there's a difference between being "left" and playing "left"... the NDP seems to have lost its way or, as some might say, have "sold out"

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--------------------Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant

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--------------------In the most recent edition of our school newspaper, yet another salvo has been fired in the ongoing war of words between the Obiter and the venerable Chair of our Student Caucus. To us amused (and bemused) readers, it just epitomizes the ultimate “forbidden thought”: student politicians and student newspaper editors can sometimes take themselves way too seriously (on the other

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--------------------the pig serves as a useful test of the personality traits of the drawer...--------------------

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--------------------No one ever expected that power would turn Stephen Harper into a warm and cuddly soul. It's simply not in his nature. He holds babies at arm's length. He makes small talk with the stilted charm of an alien. His smiles often look pained. In a delicious moment last May, on a tour to endear himself to Canadians, he plunked himself down at a knee-high table, peered at

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--------------------i received this forward a few days ago and thought about posting it then... it seems all the more poignant after the Ontario government's decision to remove the tuition freeze for post-secondary education... also, i just watched Losing Isaiah, an interesting movie about parental and custody "rights" (i bracket that because i think it is ultimately unhelpful and misguided to

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--------------------A recent editorial in the Globe and Mail gave me pause to consider some things I had written about redefining the notion of "citizenship." Also this week, the editors of our school newspaper asked me to play Captain Canada and respond to an article attacking the notion of Canadian values. My response was simply this: good for the author for feeling secure enough to exercise

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--------------------"This is the first time many of you have actually voted for a winner." -- Jon Stewart, at the 78th Annual Academy AwardsBegin with a paradox: Conservatives are happier than liberals because they are more pessimistic. Conservatives think the Book of Job got it right ("Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward"), as did Adam Smith ("There is a great deal of ruin in a

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--------------------*or at least it would've been, if someone hadn't made me feel so special... --------------------

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--------------------eeeeeek... just one more year from being a quarter-century old!Since your ruling planet is Neptune the Muse, the source of fantasy, mysticism and intuition, your imagination is boundless! Your empathy makes you sympathetic, compassionate and selfless. (Yeah, yeah, you're a saint.) You're definitely more psychic and understanding than the rest of us, and this can make you

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--------------------even as a card-carrying member of a political party, it's important not to lose sight of critical and non-partisan perspectives... Jonathan Kay of the National Post rightly sent this wake-up call to the Liberal party:If there's anything more annoying than the shrill demagoguery and Bush-bashing that marked the Liberal election campaign, it's the sententious navel-gazing that's

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--------------------something to keep in mind during today's confirmation hearing for Justice Rothstein...[Judges] don't make promises in exchange for public support. By and large, they don't casually swap votes or game the system to help one side or another. Their rulings aren't about personal or political ideologies. Instead, most judges — particularly at the Supreme Court level, where there

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--------------------it would be presumptuous to start thinking about having to make a choice about job offers i don't have yet... just as it would be presumptuous to start making 5- and 10-year career plans before finishing law school (or even 2nd year)... the day after yet another job interview, i can't help but wish i could turn off the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder...When decisions

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--------------------The Conservative government has announced that the next judge appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada will be questioned by a public Parliamentary hearing. Although Conservatives promised a free vote in the House of Commons on the appointment of new Supreme Court justices during the election campaign, they will now appoint an ad hoc parliamentary committee to question the new

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--------------------Slate.com has a series of interesting articles about the political, economic, and social complexities that underlie charitable giving. They just published their annual report of the 60 largest American charitable contributions. Daniel Akst recently discussed how to get the most "bang" for each charitable buck. In the wake of the tsunami, Daniel Gross addressed whether charity

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--------------------[It is probably true] that [the editors of Jyllands-Posten] have nothing against Muhammad or the doctrines of Islam . . . and that [they] have no interest (positive or negative) in them at all, except as the possible occasions of controversy. This is what it means today to put self-censorship "on the agenda": the particular object of that censorship — be it opinions about a

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--------------------A giant octopus almost ate a submarine when the £75,000 craft invaded its territory. The 18-foot sea monster wrapped its tentacles around the remote-controlled sub's cable and hauled itself towards it, then grabbed the vehicle and tried to bite through its metal skin. The sub's amazed controllers used its thrusters to fire sand and grit from the seabed at the octopus, forcing

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--------------------When You're Good to PattyMock Trial 2006: Publicly Served(to the tune of When You're Good to Mama) Ask any of the donors to the schoolThe ones that put money in the poolI love 'em all and all of them love meBecause the system worksThe system called reciprocity...Got a little mottoAlways sees me throughWhen you're good to PattyPatty's good to you.There's a lot of favorsI'm

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--------------------Has your time at law school made your social skills a little rusty? We’ve got you covered. The five all-time best, tried, tested, and true pick-up lines guaranteed to get that social lubricant flowing.I wish I was a car so I could hug your curves all night long.Wanna come sit on my lap and we’ll talk about the first thing that pops up?There must be Windex in your pants because

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--------------------. . . when you have an armed Dick hunting in the Bush for Quayle?--------------------

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--------------------Do you know someone in law school? Have you ever heard them talk about how busy they are and how much studying they have to do ... and wonder how insane they must become after all that work? Have you ever asked if they did other things besides read? And why is it that they always manage to make things about "law"?Every year, the cream of Osgoode's crop puts together a singing,

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--------------------There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to

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--------------------an open letter to Stephen Harper and the new Government of Canada:We the undersigned believe that David Emerson, elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver-Kingsway, should be immediately recalled and a by-election held so that the people of Vancouver-Kingsway and in general all Canadians can be represented by the party and candidate of their choice.

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--------------------so i'm in Ottawa for the Jessup tournament... i see the "613" area code on my cellphone, and i scratch my head thinking, "i don't know anyone in this city who could be calling me"... turns out it's the Federal Court of Appeal and they want to interview me for a clerkship position... foolishly, i suggest meeting them while i'm here instead of waiting next week as planned when

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--------------------An unelected lackey and a floor-crosser in Cabinet... so much for "change" in Ottawa...Brian Brett from Salt Spring, Canada said it best in the Globe and Mail about David Emerson crossing the floor: "The surprise betrayal of his party by Mr. Emerson and his constituents before the new government even begins puts the immediate lie to all Harper's promises of honour and

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--------------------"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results."-- Albert EinsteinIan Spears from the University of Guelph delivered a presentation at Saturday's conference on post-crisis state-building. His research interests have focused largely on problems and prospects for conflict and conflict resolution in African states. His earlier work concerned the

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--------------------According to the Globe and Mail, whether or not you agree with decision by Jyllands-Posten to publish the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the reaction in the Islamic world has been "far out of scale" to any offence given. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian gunmen besieged the offices of the European Union. In Jakarta, Muslim activists protested outside the embassy of Denmark and

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--------------------On February 3 and 4, the International Law Societies of Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law co-hosted the 13th annual Canadian International Law Students’ Conference (CILSC). The Osgoode and U of T International Law Societies maintain two of the largest and most active student-run organizations in the Canadian legal community and they have been

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--------------------"Truth is a kind of belief that has become a condition of life." --- Nietzsche, Will to PowerDavid Atkins has written a great parody of the Speech from the Presidential Throne. In addition, the brilliant minds at the Daily Show have once again taken to task America's mainstream media for its "velvet hands" approach to the Bush administration: watch the clip as the "fake" news

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--------------------A person born in the year of the Dog is honest, intelligent and straightforward. He has a deep sense of loyalty and a passion for justice and fair play. A Dog native is usually animated and attractive and will exude sex appeal. If you have a forthright Dog for a friend, you must know that when you are in trouble, all you have to do is dial. For no matter how much he or she

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--------------------Bis dat, qui cito dat (He gives twice who gives quickly or opportunely...)DeNeen L. Brown of the Washington Post recently reported on the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive circle of the rich and the powerful founded in 1913 for no real purpose except to organize a banquet each year to honor the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee. (The club takes its name from the legume whose roots probe

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--------------------a good and bad thing happened to me last week...i came to realize that i'd drifted away from another one of my friends... our friendship has been slowly eroded by time and diverging interests, but it became painfully clear the other day that things just aren't [and maybe never will be] the way they were... it pained me that we couldn't even muster up a conversation with each

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--------------------grades are out... enough said...as an upper-year mentor and advisor and student ambassador, i've always told first-years and would-be applicants to take the time to reflect on their personal statement... especially at a critical juncture like this, when the overwhelming pressure to perform and compete takes precedence over what should otherwise be a sense of satisfaction and

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--------------------some have argued, less sardonically than i, that Stephen Harper as Prime Minister will steer Canada toward the exact Bush-style neo-conservativism and right-wing social policies that Canadians time and again have disavowed... the results of the 2006 election have once again demonstrated Canadians' generally pragmatic and balanced perspective, despite the oft-cited failures of

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--------------------"Electoral tides are powerful things that often wash ashore some very weird fish."— JIM COYLE, Toronto Star (2006/01/17)we may not get the government we want, but we'll get the one we deserve...i've said it once, i'll say it again: vive la démocr --- ah, forget it...after being a campaign volunteer canvassing and polling, getting up early and staying out late, slogging through

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--------------------Canada's Supreme Court rules in favour of private sex clubs...the haunting likelihood of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister looms...Oregon's "right-to-die" legislation is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court...and now . . . Christ's existence is challenged in Italy!perhaps the crazy homeless guy downtown was right: the Apocalypse is here!--------------------

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--------------------Make Povery History supporters contacted federal election candidates from the five federal political parties and encouraged them to endorse the Make Poverty History goals of more and better aid, trade justice, 100% debt cancellation and an end to child poverty in Canada. In all, 987 candidates (75% from all parties) responded by our deadline and endorsed the MPH goals, and

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--------------------"All evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund BurkeWith Iraq and the Asian tsunami dominating international headlines in 2005, scant airtime was devoted to other major and devastating conflicts and crises from Haiti to Chechnya, a global aid agency said on Thursday. "Silence is the best ally of injustice," said Nicolas de Torrente, the U.S. director of

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--------------------Voters don't cast a ballot based exclusively, or even primarily, on the platforms of competing parties. They vote for the guy they trust most, or distrust least. It is probably fair to say that Stephen Harper is winning this election because he is less distrusted than Paul Martin. But the question still hangs out there: Who is Stephen Harper? What is he like? Is he really that

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--------------------is there room in politics for nuanced thought instead of drive-by smears and mere buzzwords and rhetoric? some days i seriously question whether it's worth volunteering for this election campaign, knowing that i'm doing nothing to change the dumbed-down nature of our political process... despite demands for a "more intelligent debate" -- not only from the electorate, but from

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--------------------click to view the NDP's collective response to the Make Poverty History campaign:Mike Jones (Green Party, Saskatoon-Humboldt) sent this 5-page response to my e-mail which included his party's position on this important issue:Brad Trost, Conservative incumbent for Saskatoon-Humboldt, sent the party's response:--------------------

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--------------------an open letter to all candidates in this election:Ending poverty, both globally and in Canada, should be at the forefront of this federal election. With over 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty globally and with one child in six in Canada being poor, Canadians want to know what candidates and political parties will do to help end poverty.Make Poverty History is

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--------------------"Where is the line we draw in setting out the boundaries for being responsible for others? Is it simply family and close friends? Do we stop at the frontiers of our own country? Does our conscience, our sense of right or wrong, take us as far as the crowded camps of northern Uganda, surrounded by land mines, attacked repeatedly by an army made largely of child soldiers? I

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--------------------a week into the new year, i take time to reflect on the lessons learned and the eye-opening experiences over the holidays... i finally got a chance to pick up and read through (most of) Lloyd Axworthy's Navigating a New World which i had purchased several months ago... at the same time, i got a chance to visit Grassy Narrows, a First Nations reserve in Northern Ontario and

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--------------------"The penalty for refusing to participate in politics is thatyou end up being governed by your inferiors." — PlatoThe Issues (according to the CBC, but in the order that I've ranked them):Parliamentary ReformForeign AidThe Future of FederalismHealthcare FundingTaxesEconomic GrowthNational SecurityDefence SpendingGun ControlEmployment InsuranceChild CareFarmingunfortunately, no

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