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Physicist
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Businessperson
Kofi Appenteng
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Composer
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Mohamad Bazzi
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Carlos Tiburcio Bea
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Composer
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Melikset Khachiyan
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Shirin Neshat
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Artist
André Previn
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Helen Reddy
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Nouriel Roubini
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Bapsi Sidhwa
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Novelist
Dimitri Simes
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Aso Tavitian
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Shibley Telhami
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Sebastian Thrun
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