At about the time the American sturgeon catch was starting to tap out, fish eggs from the Caspian Sea were beginning to put on their cosmopolitan French airs.

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Only a few old fogeys seem to worry that the English team is now as cosmopolitan as the French foreign legion.

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The Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, just a few blocks away from the French Quarter, is home to a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants and working class, artists and musicians, along with some of the best-preserved architecture in New Orleans.

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And with American and French presidential campaigns going on, the assault on economic sense this year is becoming downright cosmopolitan.

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And as a brilliant linguist, fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and obviously his native Portuguese, he crossed all barriers with United's cosmopolitan set-up.

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