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...Born in Oran, Algeria, Saint Laurent left home at 17 to work for Christian Dior in Paris. Upon Dior's death in 1957, Saint Laurent took over the fabled French couture house and, at only 21, garnered worldwide attention for his revolutionary first collection of short swingy trapeze dresses. The day after his Dior debut, French newspaper headlines claimed that Saint Laurent had "saved France...
...Tweaking accepted conceptions of musical and cultural identity has been a Taha trademark for more than 20 years. He's focused on merging the influences of his native Algeria with the European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs...
...stunned and totally shocked by it," said Oran Young, an environmental studies professor and friend of both victims. "Most people here have felt that it's a safe community and something like this couldn't happen...
...with the creation of StudentU.com, a new Internet venture that provides lecture notes from 62 universities across the nation free of charge, this most compelling incentive to attend class has become obsolete. In a recent New York Times article the Web site's creator, Oran Wolf, explained that he launched StudentU.com with the intention of helping student improve their notes or to help them catch up to the speed of the class should they have fallen ill and missed a lecture...
Ulterior Motive by Daniel Oran: A former program manager at Microsoft (he invented the Start button for Windows 95), Oran tells the tale of Jonathan Goodman, project manager at "giant Seattle-based computer firm" Megasoft. Goodman stumbles onto a conspiracy after a colleague and Megasoft's billionaire owner are murdered...