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Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which...
...Feng returns the compliment. "I love Sutherland," he announces in halting English, as he raises a glass of chardonnay to cap a farewell party for the Canadian-born actor at the close of shooting. As the crew disperses into the night, a young woman sidles up to Feng for an autograph. Feng looks surprised, scratches his head and points to Sutherland. "No, he's the famous one," he says, a lopsided grin taking over his face. "Big Hollywood man. Me, I'm just an ordinary guy." That's the creed that makes Feng China's top director: keeping it funny...
...need for new vehicles for growth is great, according to Kenneth Courtis, the Canadian-born vice-chairman for Asia of the Goldman Sachs International investment firm. "We are not in a U.S. slowdown. We're in an OECD slowdown," he said, referring to the 30-member association of advanced industrial nations. Europe, the U.S. and Japan are all losing momentum; that could put at risk economic and political stability in parts of the Americas and set back the entire process of globalization, which Courtis credited with providing much of the economic progress of the 1990s. "There's little sign...
...doesn't really matter which way you look at it. Whether threading the pass or finishing the perfect play, these two Canadian-born dynamos can light the lamp...
...rarity for us charm-famished North Americans to discover, here in Europe, so much of what we could only dream of back home. The Canadian-born French writer Nancy Huston, who first came to Paris as a 20-year-old Sarah Lawrence student in 1973 and never left, puts it this way: "I found that, in the very air I breathed, sun, figs, fish, sensuality, sand, music, sea, there was too much of sweetness and of beauty-without struggle, without sacrifice, without ?merit.' Yes: it was this that allowed me to take the measure of my own Puritanism...