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...after having attained world fame as a concert cellist, Ma put that awareness into practice by establishing the Silk Road Project. Funded by private donors, the group, as their artistic mission statement puts it, “acts as an umbrella organization and common resource for a number of artistic, cultural and educational programs,” focus on the Silk Road of antiquity...
...helplessly in traffic. "They're saying if you have an 1/8 tank of gas or less to get off the roads and let other people escape," mom says. Despite 100-degree heat, she turned off the car's air conditioner a couple hours ago. Instead, she's holding an umbrella out the window to block...
Producers were also worried as to whether Laurie was--to use a network term for youthful gorgeousness--Foxilicious enough. Laurie arrived on the lot in the spring of 2004 for his final auditions wielding an umbrella as a stand-in cane and wearing a button that said SEXY, given to him by his daughter. At the time, he wore the pin with a wink. "I didn't know House was the lead," Laurie says. "At one point Singer said, 'You do realize this show is kind of about House?'" Now that House has been nominated for five Emmys and Laurie...
...work, I don't make any distinction at all. People say, what do you write? I say, I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women-books about relationships, books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little...
...Still, perhaps more than any of their immigrant predecessors, Hispanics defy easy categorization. Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and Argentine Americans may all speak the same language, but many wouldn't dream of standing under the same cultural umbrella. A fair number of U.S.-born Hispanics don't speak Spanish, and many others have little or no European blood. Indeed, the category Hispanic is a gringo construct-first used by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1980-and the only one based on culture and language instead of race. That dubious distinction frustrates some Hispanics, who believe they belong to a separate...