Word: toronto
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...profile in recent months, opening its first two trials against warlords from Congo. It will gain wider public attention with the Nov.2 U.S. release of Darfur Now, a Syriana-style documentary that chronicles Moreno-Ocampo's pursuit of Harun. Appearing at screenings of the film this fall in Toronto and New York, Moreno-Ocampo received standing ovations, not to mention an audience with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
...poverty after her father's untimely death. A strikingly beautiful folk dancer from the north Indian state of Haryana, the then 25-year-old had turned down several offers to act in regional-language films because she came from a conservative family, consenting instead to wed a Toronto-based astrologer she knew through her maternal uncle. "I agreed to marry a man I had never met, thinking he would take me to a better life in Canada," she says. "Once settled there, I would take my two younger sisters and our mother, too." After a six-week visit...
...greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before going to Lausanne, Zurich, Reggio Emilia, Madrid, Wolfsburg, New York and Toronto...
...shots he faced, creating a rather formidable save percentage. Carney also proved reliable outside the ice hockey rink. Before entering public service in 2003, Carney spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, working in New York, London, and Tokyo and eventually becoming managing director of investment banking in Toronto. Grace said that even at the time of his college interview, Carney was already expressing an interest in public service. Carney’s promotion to become the head of Canada’s central bank surprised some analysts in the country. Most were predicting that W. Paul Jenkins, senior deputy governor...
...caused by an inherited mutation in their genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2, which makes them three to seven times as likely to fall ill. BRCA-related breast cancer is more apt to hit before age 50 and to recur in the second breast. In a 2002 study, University of Toronto doctors concluded that because of the relatively early age of Asian breast-cancer patients and because hereditary cancers disproportionately occur in young women, "a high proportion of breast cancer cases in the East may be attributable to BRCA1 and BRCA2." More worrisome, some studies show that more than...