Masque of the Red Death (Revisited)
DeToombs called from the west coast at 3:00 a.m. Liebnitz fell out of bed, groped in the dark for the phone, managed to put the cat to his ear (with predictable results) and eventually connected with the Chief Inspector. Mrs. Liebnitz, convinced…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
Dans le livre qu’il publiait en 1989, Les vrais penseurs de notre temps, Guy Sorman qui plaçait Carl Sagan au nombre des 28 personnalités qui méritaient cette appellation, se demandait si la célébrité médiatique de Sagan lui laissait encore le temps de…
André Laurendeau: French-Canadian Nationalist 1912-1968
Canada has achieved 127 years of democratic life as a Confederation. People settled the geography that is now Canada roughly 25,000 years ago, but it was the agreement between French and English speaking Canadians that created in the 19th century the nation…
Philby Burgess Maclean Blunt Cairncross: My Five Cambridge Friends
Not only has Yuri Ivanovich Modin written a valuable book but one which perhaps is unique in spy literature. It provides an unusual view of the inner workings of the KGB by the professional intelligence officer who directly controlled Burgess, Blunt and…
Long Walk to Freedom — The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
It is highly unusual for a Head of State to publish his memoirs while still in office, but President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is not your typical leader. Nor is Long Walk to Freedom like your typical Canadian political autobiography in which an…
Pious Peregrinations
“Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote, The droghte of March hath perced to the rote,… Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.”
Vignettes from the Global Village // Légendes du village global
As the jet rose into the hot Brazilian sky I could see the vestiges of the Minister’s visit through the haze already burning off in the noon-day sun; a great, long, four-metre tree-trunk, gathered at the base by an enormous bag of…
Vignettes from the Global Village // Légendes du village global
My first visit to Poland in September 1991, after my departure as an infant fifty-two years earlier, brought me indelible memories. Though everything I saw there was new to me, much appeared oddly comforting, even familiar. During this and subsequent visits I…
RWANDA : gestion d’une crise
La destruction de l’avion du Président a déclenché une des pires tragédies de notre époque. Cette article fait voir comment cette crise a été vécue au Ministère
SOMALIA: Moving Around in a Country of Nomads
Your choice of transport: Machine-gun “technicals”, the romantic road warrior machine? C-130 Hercules? Rubber inflatable boats?
