Life

Lots of tasty ways to use September's berry harvest

I have had a few bogeymen in my life, mostly related to family. My father was a tyrant in the best sense of the word. He would gently explain why he was about to flog me to show, I suppose, that he was being reasonable. It stung nevertheless.

San Miguel By T.C. Boyle Viking, 367 pp. $27.95 T.C. Boyle's new novel, San Miguel, is written to the natural rhythms of a distant, isolated place, and to the human rhythms of tormented souls.

The University of Victoria's list of honorary-degree holders is a virtual who'swho of national and international achievers, beginning with the first convocation ceremony at the then-new campus in May 1964.

Sidney Mayor Larry Cross can always say he was in the first-ever graduating class at the University of Victoria. The university opened its doors in 1963, and the first group of graduates received degrees in 1964.

For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.

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The University of Victoria has come a long way from its roots, when Victoria College and the Victoria Provincial Normal School came together to form an autonomous institution in 1963.

Nestled between the high Tibetan plateau and the northeast plains of India, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is thought by many to be somewhere between Shangri-La and Brigadoon.

Jim Hume > C8