This is a reasonably good resource for MSP guidelines. However, since it was published in 1996 Medicare rules have changed and it is not completely reliable as a resource.

Winning the Memorial cup is probabally he most difficult trophy to win. You must win the playoffs of your own league and then
qualify for an eentual sudden death game to win the cup. If in the last game you meet a hot goaler you have no second chance.
This book takes us back to 1919 and proceeds in great detail
all the major events and games leading up to and including the championship games. It lists the rosters of all winners which
is great for a lot of the winners who for different reasons did not go on to play pro hockey or were never again part of a winning team. It should provoke discussions about who the greatest junior team of all time was or for some deciding the best in different eras. My personal choice is the 1969 Montreal
junior Canadiens led by Gilbert Perreault,Marc Tardif, Richard Martin and Andre Dupont followed closely by the 1964 Torontoi Marlboros led by Mike Walton , Wayne Carleton, Peter Stemkowski
Gary Dineen, Ron Ellis. The Marlboros DID lose one game in the eastern finals . In the book on page 129 the authors state that
the marlies swept N.D.G.and went undefeated throughout the Memorial Cup playoffs. In fact the N.D.G. team coached by the legendary Sotty Bowman beat the Marlies 6-4 at the Montreal
Forum in what probabally was one of the biggest upsets as well as being one of the greateest coaching jobs by Bowman which has
gone nearly undocumented. I'd love to hear from him on the subject.

Regards

Claude Rioux

Merchants Of Venus (love that title) is a surprisingly dry retelling of the genesis of the Harlequin empire, from its humble origins as reprinters of nurse romances to its death-grip on the enormously lucrative paperback romance industry (number 1 paperback publisher in the world). Somehow I expected the author to really juice this story: it's got international intrigue, steamy sex, board-room shenanigans, and pouty superstars. The facts are all there, which is the fascinating part, it's just the delivery is so darn academic. For a just-the-facts recounting of a fascinating phenomenon, Merchants of Venus is great. For a steamy bodice-ripper of a tale, well I guess you'll have to go to the source.

Barolsky proposes that Michelangelo invented himself. This self-creation combines allusions to Socrates, St. Paul, Moses, God, Dante, and David. Michelangelo apparently constructed, or perhaps scuplted, the image of himself that comes down to us through Vasari and his descendents. It's an interesting and provocative thesis which undoubtedly has some merit. However, this book delves into untethered speculations - or that's my impression without doing the research myself. There's a lot of "mights" and "very well could haves" and a lot of appreciating ironies that are admitted to be unlikely, if not impossible connections. This kind of thing works with a more playful tone (a la Rem Koolhaas's "Delirious New York") but fails to convince and leaves the reader to sort the interesting trivia from the half-inspired speculations.

Daniel Fountain's review of the history of gold mining in Michigan makes one feel as if present during the periods of discovery, mining and eventual phasing out of gold production in large amounts. Although no mines are currently in operation, Fountain does very little to discourage would-be prospectors; he in fact encourages people to get out and try their hands at panning for the mosty sought after metal in the world.

As a crash course in epistemology, this book functions very well for those with little familiarity with the subject.

But the book fails to ask any provocative questions or give any useful answers.

Hiebert masquerades as a 'progressive'; he presents critical realism as the great epistemological synthesis--accepting, rejecting, and finally transcending both modernism and postmodernism.

But he deals rather harshly with postmodernism. By dressing up his arguments in vocabulary of the subjective, he feels that he has adequately 'dealt with' the postmodern problem.

But he misses the point. Epistemological progress in theology and missiology will not occur until postmodernism is accepted and validated as an emerging world-view and not merely 'dealt with.'

Critical realism may in fact be a viable epistemological alternative. But Hiebert is not fundamentally a critical realist; rather, he is yet another modern too afraid of doing irreparable damage to the Absolute to engage the issues at hand with much more than half-hearted sincerity.

This book is quite fine for learning symbolic logic, but you need some background and a good instructor. Another negative point: he doesn't give ANSWERS to the exercises he provides.

I know that Bruce G. Hallenbeck, Robert Bartholomew and William Brann co wrote this book with Paul. All in all a great read!

"More E-Prime: To Be or Not II" stands as a worthy appendage to Bourland's original. But note the "appendage" label.

I read "E-Prime II" perhaps a year ago; I read the original, "E-Prime: To be or Not," many years ago. The original had a significant effect on the way I write and speak. It added a valuable problem-solving tool to my communicative tool box.

For me, the sequel lacked that importance, but readers who struggled with the original book may benefit from the sequel's extended explanations and additional examples.

For a student new to E-Prime and General Semantics, I would not pass up the original in favor of this sequel.

Cross, a photojournalist living in Princeton, New Jersey, roamed Morocco and took home a superb collection of photographs. Her pictures range from the characteristic keyhole arches of the royal palaces to naked chickens hanging in the butcher's shop, and they cover several of Morocco's most picturesque regions. In particular, Cross has an eye for colors, whether in clothing, plants, animals, buildings, or landscape.

But there's something wrong with this postcard-like album, and it's modern life, carefully excised from nearly every picture. Morocco celebrates the non-Western and the old. The two brief forewords by the eminent writers Paul Bowles and Tahar Ben Jelloun set the tone, lauding Olde Morocco ("The beauty of the countryside is never flawed") and implicitly disdaining its modern counterpart. If a photographic collection is to portray reality, however, it has to record the full range of life, not just the exotic and archaic. Only a very few scenes hint at a Morocco that's not timeless: in particular, one picture shows a building in downtown Marrakesh plastered with posters (in English) advertising "Police Action III" and "Platoon Leader." After so many scenes from centuries past, this one feels oddly authentic and even fresh. Had Cross only shown some children in cement schools, commuters in buses, and old men watching television, she would have captured not only the beauty of Morocco but also its current reality.

Middle East Quartely, June 1996