October 2004
"for love and pain, love and pain/are companions in this age."
-- Milton Acorn, from I Shout Love
More Stories in this issue
Why Bush Will Win
by Michael Adams
As Canadians lick their wounds over our national election result – a minority that carries with it the likelihood of
Essay
The Genocide Problem: “Never Again” All Over Again
by Gerald Caplan
On a quiet Sunday in the early summer of 1999, I was recruited into the tiny but growing army of enigmatic characters
Dispatches
The Man Behind Stephen Harper
by Marci McDonald
The new Conservative Party has tasted success and wants majority rule. If Tom Flanagan and his Calgary School have their way, they’ll get it without compromising their principles.
Sightings
Class is Back
by Ken Alexander
North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the
Language
Eloquence Lost
by Charles Foran
On Abraham Lincoln, The O.C., and the demise of the typographical mind
Detail
The Anti-Monument
by Do-Ho Suh
Korean artist Do-Ho Suh brings the statue down from the pedestal
Poetry
January 20, 2003
by Juliana Spahr
In the summer of 1970, Shelly Grimson, a twenty-two-year-old university student with long hair, an army jacket, and a
Fiction
Samson and Delilah
by Jonathan Goldstein
Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the
History
A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
by Gerald Caplan
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were
Books
The Photographer and the Philosopher
by Pico Iyer
books discussed in this review: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by jan
Reality
Answers to Common Questions about Sex and Ageing
by “Dr.” Barbara Nichol
It’s later than you think
Why Kerry Will Win
by Stephen Handelman
In February, 1996, when the right-wing firebrand Pat Buchanan looked improbably close to winning that summer’s
Field Notes
Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal
by Joel Yanofsky
montreal — Three years ago, on a day in October, Ann Ungar reported for her first day of work as the newly
Media
Not the Six-O’clock News
by Jeannie Marshall
In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism
Field Notes
Sundaes with Chavez
by Linda McQuaig
caracas — Despite previous disappointments, I always retain the faint hope that the hotel I have booked will
Field Notes
Pigs in the City
by Chris Koentges
berlin—Derk Ehlert has that whimsical quality of movement whereby his torso seems to chase after his neck,
