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<DIV>5. IDEAS: Tuesday December 19th</DIV>
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<DIV>Part One of "Any Mummers Allowed?" tonight on Ideas. In Newfoundland,
on any night during the twelve days of Christmas, you may hear pounding on your
door. Voices outside shout, "Any mummers allowed?" Allowed or not, they will
tumble into your home, loud, masked and rowdy. In Ireland, they may bring
livestock. In Philadelphia, their street parade stops traffic. Chris Brookes
looks at an ancient solstice tradition that continues today on both sides of the
Atlantic. That's tonight on Ideas at 9 (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. (CONCLUDES
TOMORROW) </DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain and
suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me
our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 / 487 7309 <BR>Fax (514)
398 8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A>
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