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Rex Murphy

Counting on the Coast Guard

Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011 | 11:39 AM ET

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If Stephen Harper is fishing for votes during his trip to Newfoundland, he may want to leave one of his MPs at home. Rex has some words of wisdom to win over Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Rex Murphy

From politics to pop culture, Rex Murphy brings a unique and always controversial perspective to the news. This season, he'll also be checking in on what Canadians are saying about the stories that matter to them.

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She is an outsider, and is trying to wake us up again to the moral foundations of western civilization.
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Paradise Lost, by John Milton
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The sage, Vidal, provides a priceless analysis of the arrest of Roman Polanski
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"Leap Into Light" by Robert Huddleston, from Boston Review September/October 2009
A review of books on Yeats, including Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler