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...non-American, American imperialist and tenured professor of History writes...
...Clooney about his “eye-opening” and challenging filming process on the set of “Syriana.” The Harvard Crimson: Have you had any significant or moving anecdotes that you could share with us, while in contact with some of the non-American cultures during the making of the film? George Clooney: I remember sitting on the roof of a building in Casablanca, during Ramadan. A siren would go off and everyone would get out of their cars and face Mecca and would pray in the middle of the street. There were...
...chomping Americans trampling over Europe seems misplaced. While some of the major U.S. investors have Americans on staff in Europe, their public face is usually local. "We are not showing up with a cowboy hat," says the principal of one U.S. fund. Ostmeier, for example, who is based in Hamburg, is German, a former management consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Dsseldorf. He spent seven years working for a London-based European private-equity group before he joined Blackstone in 2003. Jean-Pierre Millet, who runs Carlyle's European operations out of Paris, is the first non-American...
...Performance of the Week Newly crowned fastest man on the planet ASAFA POWELL, 22, broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to lower the mark. Winning on the very track that dealt him a disappointing fifth-place finish in last year's Olympics makes it a doubly sweet success for Powell. Aptly, his African first name means "rising to the occasion...
...very prescient man, but he was very non-American in some sense. He always really yearned for a society where a sort of cultivated elite could make decisions on foreign policy,” Maier said...