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...Show,” he also appears as two other characters, Borat, a naive Kazakhstani reporter who travels to the U.S. to report on American culture, and Bruno, a self-obsessed Austrian fashion reporter...
Stronach, 37, has already cut a swath among the world's corporate elites. Magna, founded by her Austrian-immigrant father Frank in a rural Ontario tool-and-die shop, has offices in 22 countries and a global workforce of 75,000. But Stronach's philanthropic interests, which include running a national education foundation, took her beyond a focus on the bottom line. As she campaigned across Canada's vast distances this winter, some admirers were already comparing her to the young Margaret Thatcher. "She generated significantly more glamour than I could bring," conceded Stephen Harper, 45, the victor...
...kind of phenomenon that non-Americans either laugh at or are baffled by. The rise of a steroid-munching, big-grinned, Austrian body builder into Hollywood stardom and then the governorship of the most populous state in the U.S. is an only-in-America story. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't even born here. But he is as big a political and cultural presence as anyone...
...creates awkward problems for the governments that figured they could get by without votes of their own. French President Jacques Chirac in particular is now under pressure to give his stroppy voters their say, and they may well say non. Blair's move is a "big risk," said Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, "because domestic politics could very easily get mixed up with a fundamental European question, and that is always dangerous." But Blair hopes it will at least get him through the night. The public's trust in him has taken a beating from the Iraq...
...speak great English for an Austrian,” someone inevitably remarks...