And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.

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Today she juggles job, marriage and family while straddling three continents, with a home in California where she spends weekends and holidays with her two college-student children, ages 23 and 18, and trips to Europe and Asia, where her husband works.

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Most student entrepreneurs work around school demands, so weekends, break weeks, holidays and summer become valuable times to get things done.

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He will play Adam Best, an Oxford University student who comes to Walford to stay with his mother, Manda, during the holidays in the BBC soap.

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