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...follower of Sikhism, a South Asian religion distinct from Islam or Hinduism. There are about 25 million Sikhs worldwide, most of them in India...
...businesses operating in a time of financial pressure, Harvard clubs in Boston and New York seize opportunities to remain pertinent. In order to achieve this goal, they hope to combat the recession by expanding membership. There seems to be two distinct routes. In New York, the Harvard Club requires that potential members have significant ties to the university, as outlined on their Web site. For example, an applicant could be a Harvard graduate or a faculty member of the University. In Boston, however, these membership requirements expanded to include partner schools such as Bryant University and Holy Cross. Membership expansion...
Americans and Europeans consider each other to be culturally distinct. European nations have high tax rates and socialized medicine; in the U.S., people flock to fast-food restaurants and pile into SUVs. But according to Peter Baldwin, a professor of history at UCLA, the reigning stereotypes about both groups are mostly untrue. In The Narcissism of Minor Differences, a new book published this month, Baldwin collected data from dozens of organizations and found that the U.S. and Europe are actually more alike than they are different. Baldwin talked to TIME about transatlantic differences in religion, crime and health care...
...says vet schools have distinct emphases and reputations—Tufts for small animal research, University of Wisconsin for livestock, and University of Pennsylvania for horses, to name...
...Krasinski tackled one of his favorite works for his directorial debut. In adapting “Interviews” for the screen, he returns to his college roots as an English major and playwright at Brown University. Wallace’s unnamed interviewer is here given a distinct collegiate identity as Sara Quinn (an icy Julianne Nicholson), who hopes to investigate “the social effects of the post-feminist era” by conducting and recording interviews with male test subjects in a stark, white-bricked basement room. Sara is a reserved, turtlenecked brunette with closely cropped hair...