• Two new celeb moms went serene with blue: Beyonce with Blue Ivy for her daughter, and Alicia Silverstone with Blu as a middle name for her son Bear.

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  • My mum was fairly mystified when she found out but she didn't give me a middle name to start with so it's sort of her fault anyway, leaving me a blank canvas to paint on.

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  • He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a Boston Brahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.

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  • "I once challenged a group of middle-school students to name a subject of interest to them, and I told them I could put up an image that would show their connection to the story, " he recalled.

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  • She may not be a recognized name in middle America right now, but by this time next year, she will be.

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  • Sadia, for example, is a Brazilian frozen-foods company that has become a household name in the Middle East, helped perhaps by its name's similarity to sa'ada, the Arabic word for happiness.

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  • Doak Barnett was an American who seemed to have a touch of Scottish stubbornness: his unusual middle name, which he used as his first name, was a nod to his Scottish ancestry.

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  • He spent the next two decades building a good name in providing affordable middle-class housing in far-flung suburbs where land was cheap.

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  • Retiring to one of these communities (Sun City alone has bred a dozen places with the same name) has become almost a routine part of middle-class life.

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  • Emma added that she and her husband, Andrew, 34, would talk to their daughter - whose middle name of Trinity is a reference to the fact that three people were involved in bringing her into the world - about the situation when she was older.

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  • The players, Marine Lieutenant Todd Desgrosseilliers and a middle-aged Sunni who offered only his first name, Ali.

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  • If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.

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  • Wolfowitz sat down next to a slight middle-aged man in a fraying denim jacket and a black wool cap, who said that his name was Bedir Yasa and that until recently he had been living on the streets.

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  • The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.

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  • Miraval's middle name is "balance, " and it takes a gentle approach to reshaping guests' lives.

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  • In addition, we are pursuing opportunities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Canada to name a few.

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  • Edgar Allan Poe's middle name was misspelled as Allen in some editions Thursday of a Remembrance obituary of actor Harry Morgan.

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  • That his middle name, Hussein, is reckoned to be something of a liability in America is in turn seen in parts of the Middle East as evidence of American Islamophobia.

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  • Its former coalition partner, the (conservative) Party of the Liberal Front, has changed its name to the Democrats as part of a stampede for the middle ground of Brazilian politics.

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  • If they just got on with it then, apart from the money it would save the authorities not having to prosecute them, the goodwill (my middle name by the way) it would generate would go a long way to restoring trust in the financial system.

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  • Its Malagasy name refers to its carnivorous diet and isolation on a landmass in the middle of the ocean.

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  • Dillard's Inc. ( DDS - news - people ) caters to middle- and upper-middle-income women, selling name-brand and private-label merchandise with a focus on apparel and home furnishings.

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