1.   He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.

2.   Butterfield, himself a son of the South, straddles the culture with a fitting skepticism where our proclaimed virtues are concerned.

3.   He leaves the future filled with uncertainty for the woman who has worked hard to straddle two cultures.

4.   He straddled both cultures, holding fund-raisers in the Hamptons to help inner-city children.

5.   Like her students, Ms. Simon has straddled two cultures all her life.

6.   Wolf-Ferrari straddled two cultures.