As an Asian American son of immigrants, I am personally delighted to be part of this effort.
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And in African eyes the American dream has lately been given a new fillip by the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the American son of a Muslim from Kenya.
With this weak, tepid brew of message movie and family drama, the sensei moves further away than ever from his trademark imagistic energy toward the contemplative style of previous Japanese masters. (Even the title recalls Ozu.) In this tri-generational story, four children vacation with their grandmother (Sachiko Murase) in the country outside Nagasaki while their parents visit a granduncle and his half-American son (Richard Gere) in Hawaii.
However, Bob Monetti, an American whose son Rick was also killed, said Megrahi should not be given bail.
The American, son of co-owner Tom Hicks, became embroiled in controversy when it emerged he had responded abusively when one supporter contacted him directly about the state of the Premier League club and their finances.
The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.
Among our great American patriots was a son of the Port of Charleston.
He left Iraq after an American soldier shot his son, who has been left in a vegetative state following several surgeries.
His father, Lester Coke, was a leader of the infamous Shower Posse the gang which, according to the American indictment, his son now runs.
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The wealthy Chinese businessperson who owns a Chinese company and wants to buy an American company so his son or daughter can go to UCLA. These purchases tend to be more random.
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Half a world away, terrorists trying to hurt Americans blow up two embassies in Africa and they kill some of our people, some of our best people of, I might add, very many different racial and ethnic backgrounds -- American citizens -- including a distinguished career African-American diplomat and his son.
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Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, the son of an American mother and a Cuban father.
He recalled his childhood growing up in Berlin, and produced a copy of his first diplomatic passport as the 11-year-old son of an American diplomat.
The son of an American Foreign Service member and a Voice of America journalist, Heinecke grew up in cities across Asia and attended high school in Thailand.
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Were we to buy into the birtherism claim that Obama was, indeed, born in Kenya, then he too would have been foreign born as the son of an American mother and a father who was a citizen of a foreign land.
Some of those killed were well-known in Binghamton, including an American teacher at the ACA whose son is a surgeon.
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Johnny Spann said there was no special comfort in knowing that his son was the first American to give his life in the fight against terrorism.
Since Elian's mother had risked everything on that hazardous journey across the Florida Straits, it was surely her wish that her son should become an American.
He's lived in Southern California for 15 years, raising a son and daughter with his American wife.
He and, soon, others suggested Zimmerman had targeted his son, an African-American youth wearing a hooded sweatshirt, because of his race.
So I played soccer in sixth grade, and followed it like a typical American sports fan up until my oldest son got really into Premier League soccer.
That was a singular choice for the California-born son of a Swedish-American mother and a Japanese-American father, though maybe not such a strange one, given his rich family heritage.
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As a teenager, Son was fascinated with things American and with a local hero, Den Fujita, who methodically turned McDonald's Japan into the largest restaurant chain in a land of mom-and-pops.
President Obama knows that the best way to help my son and the thousands of American children and adults on the Autism Spectrum is to remain committed and focused so that tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, we'll continue to do better.
He grew up in Hyderabad, India, the second son of a mother who taught American literature and a father who ran a plastics company.
Perhaps he forgot Powell is black because his father, Colin Powell, is not African-American. (He's the son of Jamaican immigrants.) But his mother, Alma Powell, is.
Obama, 46, grew up in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother.
Azmat Begg's son, Moazzam, has been in American custody since he was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, in February 2002.
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth play a well-to-do American couple staying at their lakeside retreat with their son and their dog.
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