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...that multicultural communities are an integral part of Canada," says Gurmant Grewal. Of course, one Asian Canadian has already reached the top of the country's tree: Adrienne Clarkson, the Governor General, who came to Canada in 1942 as a refugee from Hong Kong. She is the representative of Queen Elizabeth II?Canada's head of state...
...first met Barrett Beatrice Jackson ’06 because she lived across the hall from me in Straus C. We shook hands, exchanged names and then I avoided her for a month because of nothing more than her accent. Worse, she was a former beauty queen...
That alone seemed reason enough to keep my distance. Eventually, by some grace of God or Truth—I can’t say which—Barrett’s true colors were revealed to me. Being a beauty queen, it turned out, meant being a skilled ballerina. And it also meant winning scholarship money. I could understand these things. And I even started to like her accent. A beautiful friendship was born...
Nancy spent some of her time watching a replay of the cathedral service on a giant TV screen and reading letters of condolence from famous friends like Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth. At one point Nancy and the children, filled with their sense of loss but not muted by it, gathered around the casket and seemed to reflect Reagan's own advice to look to the future. They talked of son Ron's television career and Patti's writing...
SUSAN ARNOLD Beauty Queen As head of Procter & Gamble's beauty-products division since 1999, with brands like Olay and CoverGirl, Susan Arnold, 50, trusts her intuition. "You get just enough data, but then you have to have a sense of what works," says the 24-year P&G veteran, who became vice chairwoman last month. "And you have to have the guts to act on it." Under Arnold, the division's sales have grown about 14% annually. The mother of two, who recently competed in a triathlon and learned to surf, will add hair care to her portfolio. With...