Word: émigrée
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...DIED. WILLIAM PICKERING, 93, quiet giant of the U.S. space program; in La Ca?ada Flintridge, California. An ?migr? from New Zealand, Pickering was part of the team that launched the U.S.'s first satellite in 1958. For 22 years, he was chief of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which during his tenure conducted America's manned missions to the Moon and sent pioneering probes to Venus and Mars...
...This World is a road movie?a Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan ?migr?; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo) went along for the ride, often improvising dialogue with people the boys met. At times the danger seems real: rifle fire at a Turkish border, captured on infrared film, comes perilously close to the two boys?and the crew. Did the film put the lads at risk? This is an expos? that occasionally smacks...
...first husband John Brahm, she played the Lillian Gish role; then she was offered a three-year Hollywood contract by Myron Selznick (whose father had hired the teenage Hirschfeld). But she made no films in California. She came to New York, appearing in plays by the German ?migr? Erwin Piscator. It was there she met, and in 1943 married, the man referred to in the Google translation of a German-language Dolly Haas website as "the well-known caricaturist aluminum deer field...
...President Bush moves closer to war in Iraq, the FBI is preparing for an escalating threat of terror from both Iraqi operatives and other groups, Anticipating both direct retaliation by Iraqis and sympathy strikes by radical jihadists, the bureau is expanding its presence in ?migr? communities in both overt and covert ways. Agents are contacting legal immigrants in the hope that they will advise the bureau if they see evidence of terrorist activity. The FBI is also urging Iraqis in the U.S. to call the bureau if they are in touch with friends and relatives back home who want...
Last week the office of public affairs at Middlebury College dispatched a press release to education reporters cheering the soon-to-arrive class of 2005. There's the young man who's appeared in "Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda," the recent Russian ?migr? who launched a successful magazine and the Kenyan-born, India-raised student who founded a nationwide human rights coalition. And finally the professional clown who toured the U.S. performing in Circus Smirkus...