Word: canadians
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...Harvard admissions numbers are concerned, I make up part of the 10.5 percent of the Class of 2010 that is African-American, but I’d like to set the record straight: I’m French-Canadian, Anglo-Scottish, Cherokee African-American...
...jellied Smurf sweets over the past two decades, while over 10 million Smurf CDs have been sold in the last three years alone. There was also a traveling ice show, a France theme park called Big Bang Schtroumpf (as well as Smurf attractions cropping up in five U.S. and Canadian theme parks), and the smash hit The Smurf Song by Dutch singer Father Abraham reached No. 1 in 16 countries back...
...former Liberian president looked relaxed as Canadian diamond expert Ian Smillie - one of the authors of a U.N. reports that accuses Taylor of being a gun smuggler - took the stand and told judges why he believed Taylor needed diamonds so badly. "They're very small, they're high value, they're easy to move [and] historically they've held their price very well," explained Smillie. "In the 1990s, the period we're talking about, they were an alternative to hard currency in countries where there was no hard currency or where people wanted to hide the movement of money...
...exquisite, sophisticated pianist, perhaps jazz's greatest, may have acquired some of his famed precision from the rough-hewn lessons of his father, who was known to beat him when he hit a wrong note, but Canadian Oscar Peterson's technical skills were only part of his genius. Peterson, whom Duke Ellington called the Maharaja of the Keyboard, took the piano to new heights as soloist; sideman (for Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie); composer; and leader of the Oscar Peterson Trio, which some call jazz's finest. He could hold back, then rip down the keyboard at lightning speed...
...doubt that means there's more bad news ahead for Canadian pigs and good news for American lettuce. Still, despite the ups and downs the dollar brought in 2007, Canada's economy barely wavered. Along with the loonie, output, employment and Canadians' deservedly inflated pride all flew steadily in the face of a global credit crisis. In fact, the most remarkable thing about the loonie's ascent may be how handily Canadians handled it - notwithstanding the odd hurled book. Just imagine if in 2002 someone had prophesied today's exchange rates. "I think we [all] would have concluded that...