more on Montreal Politics: Full Contact Blood Sport

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Bruce Campbell <bc () clicknation com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 01:27:31 -0500
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Montreal Politics: Full Contact Blood Sport
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> What can I say?
>
> This is shameful to me as a born-Canadian and patriot to both
> my birth country and the US, where I am now a citizen and
> have spent most of my life.
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> http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030402/
> UMASSN/TPNational/TopStories"


And the reaction to that story:

Diplomacy scores big as hockey row ends amicably

MONTREAL -- The face of the polite Canadian resurfaced yesterday for a group
of U.S. peewee hockey players.
The children had run into a barrage of anti-U.S. hostility during a recent
tournament in Montreal.
One of the hockey families was inundated with calls of support and sympathy
from across Canada after reports about the Americans' soured trip north.
"The response has been overwhelming," Bill Carpenter, father of two peewee
players, said from Brockton, south of Boston . . .
[Full story at: http://tinyurl.com/8qtf ]

David Akin
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