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...Field; in Fresno, California. Warmerdam, a pioneer who competed with primitive bamboo poles, was the first to clear 15 feet, in 1940, holding the record for 11 years. He won the James A. Sullivan Award in 1942 as America's outstanding amateur athlete. DIED. SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI, 74, an American-born international Hindu leader, publisher of Hinduism Today and spiritual guru for 2.5 million Tamil people; in Kauai, Hawaii. Known as Gurudeva, he founded America's first Hindu temple in 1957 in San Francisco and oversaw more than 50 independent temples worldwide. He won the 2000 U Thant Peace Award...
...understand the inevitability of this sort of conflict,” said Vijay Ganesh ’04, an American-born upstate New Yorker. “Retaliation is necessary [for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...Mecca. If these "five pillars" seem foreign to you, you may not be talking with your neighbors. Islam is an American religion. There are some 7 million Muslims in the U.S. That's more than the number of Jews and more than twice the number of Episcopalians. Thirty years ago, the Islamic count was a mere 500,000. The number of mosques rose from 598 in 1986 to 1,372 this year. The number of American-born Muslims now far exceeds the count of immigrants...
...British political life. But despite many prominent examples of individual success, British Jews have until recently avoided the kind of high-profile political lobbying activity practiced in Washington by the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). "There has been a reticence to get involved and to become active in the way and on the scale that the American Jewish community is," says Ned Temko, the American-born editor of London's Jewish Chronicle. The difference in approach is also a matter of numbers. "In the U.S., Jews are a major electoral force that can turn votes around," says LFI director...
...book is timely. Chang, an American-born Chinese, has lived and worked in China for almost two decades, most recently as a Shanghai-based lawyer in a leading U.S. firm. But this is not a work of serious sinology. Most of his anecdotes appear to have been gleaned from media reports, including those from television. The book more closely resembles a lengthy, impassioned address prepared for a law-school debate...