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Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989 Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Montreal Massacre on Wikipedia One of the very few articles in the Canadian English [...]

From the “Acknowledgments” to Phillip Thurtle’s The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920 (University of Washington Press, 2008): Phillip supervised my M.A. thesis. I hadn’t gotten around to looking at his book until now.

Having finally crossed off all the items on my previous to-do list, it is time to make a new: write the last two chapters of the dissertation (Mandeville; conclusion) find/select epigraph for Mandeville chapter finish course outlines for F09/W10 (“Animals, the Environment and Law” and “State, Law and Violence,” both first year seminars) hope that [...]

It goes without saying – but, of course, I’ll say it anyway – that no one would have been satisfied with the conclusion to “Battlestar Galactica,” regardless of what that conclusion was or could have been. There are, no doubt, about as many complaints about the conclusion as there were viewers. Some people who didn’t [...]

How it must end: (1) As Adama’s volunteer force attacks the Cylon colony ship, the fleet renews civil war, this time attempting to seize control of the basestar. Both battles are catastrophic and everyone dies down to the last person, human and Cylon alike; (2) Cylons or humans from a previous cycle of history miraculously [...]