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The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan, Arrow, 642 pages, $8.99parThe prequel, so to speak. In 1798, a century and a half after Cromwell crushed the Irish resistance, the [...]

Byline: Special to The Globe and Mail FEB. 22-28, 1994 CASINO FLIP-FLOP CAUSES CONTROVERSY Debate over the future of for-profit gaming intensified with news that the Vancouver Port Corporation is [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that the Quebec government adopted tough back-to-work legislation placing the illegally striking Montreal transit maintenance workers' union under trusteeship, even if its [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ended weeks of speculation and called a general election that her Conservative Party was expected to win [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that the Soviet Union had issued a statements through Tass, the official press agency, declaring that its troops would remain in Afghanistan [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that the Dow Jones industrial average in New York had the biggest drop since the crash of 1929 in response to fears [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that as the Lebanese Army took control of Shatila and Sabra Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut, in the wake of a [...]

25 YEARS AGO: The Globe and Mail reported that a U.S. Federal Court jury awarded former Detroit Red Wing Dennis Polonich $850,000 in damages for facial injuries suffered in a [...]

Byline: LILA SARICK Toronto ONT -- BY LILA SARICK Immigration Reporter TORONTO Immigration files for serious criminals have been sent to a central warehouse and in effect closed, a review [...]

Byline: Peter Charlton Ottawa ONT -- I would assume that Senator Pat Carney's personal archives were in large measure gathered while she was paid by the federal government, and copies [...]

Byline: BEN FRANKLIN THE DIM microfilm reading room at the National Archives building on Pennsylvania Avenue, scores of elderly Americans sit in rows before film- reading machines, poring over the [...]