Getting a college degree is a traditional mark of middle-class respectability.
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There's even an urban moustache, "Istanbul-style", which barely touches in the middle, while twirly ends are usually a mark of nostalgia, and a yearning for the Ottoman past.
Last year, Franklin Templeton Investments emerging-markets guru Mark Mobius started finding bargains in Middle East countries like Egypt and Dubai, but these scarcely figure in the typical emerging-markets fund.
The son of a Chicago English professor, West made his mark by dressing preppy and wrapping about black middle-class angst.
McLaren's two British drivers, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, had not planned to return to Europe immediately anyway and others - including Red Bull's Mark Webber - are heading back via the Middle East.
The first billionaire of Wales, he has made his mark next to Roman ruins and castles from the Middle Ages.
It all means that expecting online retailing in the Middle East to double, could actually be wildly low of the mark.
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Mark's family home is smack dab in the middle of what the fossil fuel industry wants to make the Gaslands of New York state.
South Africa had been 272-3 overnight before Mark Gillespie (5-136) hustled out the middle order, but the hosts already had more than enough runs.
Mr Brahimi has been visiting a series of Middle Eastern capitals, putting forward a proposal for a ceasefire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which starts at the end of the month.
An adviser to six former secretaries of state on the Middle East, Miller says if Rice really wants to make her mark, she'll have to do more heavy lifting and some serious prep work for this conference.
The only really interesting characters are a middle-aged couple, David (Bruce Davison) and Sean (Mark Lamos).
Her bed, in the middle of the stage, is a thing of wonder, thanks to Mark Henderson's superb lighting and Nina Dunn's videos.
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When they could not, they, along with Mark Davenport and Jason Laska, decided to cut out the middle man and found their own journal.
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The Egyptian government is still pegging growth during the current fiscal year at 3.5% to 4%, but economists who closely track the Middle East and North Africa region, known as MENA, are beginning to mark down expectations.
Mark got a job teaching in one of the toughest and lowest performing middle schools there (by choice) and started in August.
So it remains to be seen if this rather unusual public outburst against Mr Blair - and Mr Bush - will just cause a raised eyebrow for one day, or mark a rather more important ratcheting up of public concern in Britain about where Middle East policy is going.
Mark Field said many Tory MPs were concerned about the impact of the cut on middle-income families.
The expulsion of three passengers of Middle Eastern descent from a Northwest Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City prompted Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to threaten to sue.
Mark Glover, chair of the Gedling Conservation Trust, said building a solar farm in the middle of a country park would be "preposterous".
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As a mark of respect for the memory of Rabin and America's support for peace in the Middle East, he ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff until Rabin's burial.
Darren Pattinson gained two early blows in successive overs, having Mark Ramprakash caught by Will Jefferson at the second attempt at second slip and yorking Scott Newman middle stump to reduce Surrey to 17-3.
Chris Cairns and Chris Read quickly followed as the run-rate slowed in the middle overs, with Voges pulling Du Plessis to the waiting Flintoff at deep mid-wicket, leaving Mark Ealham to hit two sixes in a late cameo of 28 off 21 balls.
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