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...sing a song for me right now." The scene was a sidewalk in Paris in 1990. The challenge was issued by the leader of a ragtag touring group called the Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band, who was holding an impromptu audition. The wannabe was an American-born teenager named Madeleine Peyroux, who had been busking around Paris. She crooned Jeepers Creepers, snapping her fingers as accompaniment...
...only player to reach the Final Four of both the singles and doubles draws, and he was the only American-born player in the semifinal round of the former bracket...
...year-old American-born and sexually-liberated daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, Salam has the same apolitical world-weariness that tempts many first-generation Americans to shirk their heritage. However, when religious commitment leads her boyfriend Rezwan to Hebron and an eventual break from her, Salam is forced to rediscover the religion she had resented...
Yesterday, the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston declared Harvard’s senior goaltender, Dov Grumet-Morris, the recipient of the 53rd Walter Brown Award, which annually honors the best American-born collegiate hockey player in New England...
...Boeing, a fully floated company, has no such luxury." Boeing is trying to spin the A350 as a sign of lost confidence in the A380. Sniffs Stonecipher: "The A380 is a great engineering success - but so was the Concorde. The A380 could be a market disaster." John Leahy, Airbus' American-born top salesman, dismisses that prospect, saying airlines want both options - the A380 and the A350. No matter who's right, Boeing can't afford to make the wrong call. Ulrich Horstmann, an aerospace analyst for Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, says: "If Boeing doesn't make the 7E7 a success...