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...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 - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice...
...During a stint as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge from 1973-1974, Soyinka encountered a recent Yale graduate with “an adventurous mind,” and the two would form a close friendship...
When Blackwill returned in 2003 from his two-year stint as U. S. Ambassador to India, the KSG announced in a press release that he would resume his teaching duties at Harvard, but Blackwill went straight to the White House instead...
Before becoming a professor, Mankiw worked as an assistant to Summers, who was a professor in the economics department prior to leaving for his own stint in Washington and then returning to become president of the University...
This summer, the teammates on the Harvard women’s ice hockey team traveled to the other side of the globe to Kazakhstan for an eight-day stint with the group Athletes in Action...