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Manning secures Reform's backing
OTTAWA - Preston Manning, the Reform party leader, yesterday won a key endorsement from his party's grassroots members and grabbed momentum in his campaign to fold the western-based movement into the newly created Canadian Alliance party. Delegates to a national convention in Ottawa voted 651-222 -- or 74.6% -- in favour of Mr. Manning's leadership.

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Ontario factor spreads fear among populists

Manning throws confident challenge to leadership hopefuls

He's built his career on being underestimated

UA opponents concede defeat but battle's not over

A political game of sign reading

But can he dance?

Single tax rate will be battleground of federal vote:

Canadians deserve tax cuts to restore incomes, manufacturers' alliance says

The tensions of uniting former political foes

New name, same face, critics say of alliance

Team Harris strikes again

The party formerly known as Reform

Tennessee dream falls short of reality
SUPER BOWL XXXIV: RAMS 23 TITANS 16 ATLANTA - Eight inches, maybe a foot. In the end that was what separated the Cinderella Rams and a team of destiny from Tennessee, what separated fairytale glory from unforgiving reality. A last-ditch, last-second plunge by Titans wide receiver Kevin Dyson toward the goal line fell just short and preserved the Rams' extraordinary 23-16 victory last night in Super Bowl XXXIV.

NHLer's close call with death revives debate over equipment
For five terrifying minutes, Dr. David Mulder quite literally held Trent McCleary's life between his fingers, gently pressing on the hockey player's windpipe and jaw in a crude attempt to keep precious air from leaking away.

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Seeing McCleary prompts another to feel the pain

Montreal wins for fallen mate

Serious NHL Injuries

Academics take aim at 'racist science'
J. Philippe Rushton, the University of Western Ontario psychologist frequently branded a bigot for his theories of racial hierarchies, is provoking controversy after sending out what has been described as a "really disgusting piece of racist science" to academics across Canada and the United States. Prof. Rushton's work places characteristics such as brain size, intelligence, crime rates, sexual frequency and penis size along a racial continuum.

Ranchers dodge artillery as U.S. Army hones skills
GATESVILLE, Tex. - Robert Shoaf knelt over one of the 10 craters now dotting his property and sighed as he clasped a jagged strip of artillery shrapnel. "One hundred yards that way, it would have hit my house," Mr. Shoaf said on Saturday, pointing west to the home he shares with his wife, Joan, about 160 kilometres southwest of Dallas.