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...they keep earning those frequent-flyer miles, there's no telling how cosmopolitan the NBA will get. Some observers think as many as half the league's players could be foreign-born by the end of the decade, but Commissioner Stern calls that a stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA'S Global Game Plan | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...tractor driver, an official from Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority who is also a former member of the national football team, a lieutenant colonel in the King's bodyguard and a charismatic TV reporter with a journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley. They're a devout but cosmopolitan bunch, and they've taken their director's special standing in stride. After two months of shooting, they treat him with casual affection and a deference that seems to owe as much to his incisive wit and encyclopedic knowledge of film as to his exalted position or Buddhist training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The God of Small Films | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...That's why Americans make the best Roman films." American hegemony is just one of a multitude of topics on which Ustinov is happy to expound. The British-born son of a French mother and a half-German, half-Russian father (who had an Ethiopian grandmother to boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime of hobnobbing with the high and mighty have turned him into a consummate, and well-connected, pundit. His work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador - he's still going strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Imperial View | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

...becoming a happening capital. So is it? Simply, no. The bitter truth is that the only place ever to have known a paparazzi stakeout is T.G.I. Friday's. But whereas five years ago New Delhi was dead, now, on the right night, it is possible to detect the faintest cosmopolitan pulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

Describe yourself in 3 words: Cosmopolitan, loyal, fashionable...

Author: By E.f.m. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped! | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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