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The provincial centres of Jewish life for so many generations emptied; and by the end of the nineteenth century Turin's Jewish population had doubled, to around 4,000. Among them were Primo Levi's maternal grandmother, from Alessandria, and his maternal grandfather, from Casale.

Within one or two generations Italian Jews had transformed themselves from small provincial traders, moneylenders and rabbis to metropolitan professionals, particularly in the professions of writing and the Word: government service, the law, the universities, journalism.

However, the rookie board is in turbulent times, with controversy affecting two members: provincial appointee Norm Gardner, sidelined by a handgun controversy, and acting chair Alan Heisey, a city appointee.

Lau fills a second provincial appointment, while a third is open, following the resignation of former Tory cabinet minister Al Leach.

He criticized the rush by a "rump board" last year to try to put the chief in place for an extra two years just as a new mayor and provincial government were coming in.

The walkout involves two-thirds of Newfoundland and Labrador's civil service and a good portion of its 525,000 residents, and it came on the heels of Mr. Williams's first budget -- a hard-core plan intended to cut the $840-million provincial deficit by eliminating 4,000 public-sector jobs over the next four years.

There were so few provincial issues that Dalton Camp, the erudite Toronto Star columnist, declared the election "a yawn" the day it was called.

At any given time there are 20 or 30 doubles stationed at the Palace of the End (though there are scores of us in the capital, and dozens more in every major provincial town). Idling and milling around the doubles' commissary, we enjoy a glass of coffee, and ready ourselves for the work of the afternoon.

Today, for example, I entertained a young anaesthetist from the provincial capital.

Then, too, there was the hit from the ATS - or anti-tank shell - he took in the ballroom of a provincial palace, whose casing, and much glass, became temporarily embedded in his crown and nape.

In a paper just released by Ottawa's Caledon Institute, economist and former Saskatchewan senior civil servant Greg Marchildon — a scarred veteran of first ministers' conferences who later became executive director of Romanow's health commission — describes in depressing detail the squabbling and one-upmanship that characterized recent federal-provincial punch-ups over health.

Fuelled by federal cutbacks and the provincial governments' own efforts to balance their books, these conferences became, according to Marchildon, a cesspool of backbiting and dishonesty that had little to do with medicare and much to do with avoiding public blame.

Most of his earlier novels had featured city life; now, again and again, he placed his story in a provincial town on the frontier between Galicia and Russia.

Such landscapes would vex the Lord of the Rings special effects team, let alone the handful of creatives likely to be assembled by a provincial playhouse.

"It's just the beginning," the sheik said during a meeting in the provincial government building with a U.S. Army commander and seven other spiritual leaders.

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