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...visit to the set of “Bachelor No. 2,” a romantic comedy starring Dane Cook and Kate Hudson, was organized by Benjamin S. Forkner ’01 and Mia E. Riverton ’99, one of Harvardwood’s founders. Forkner works for Management 360, the company producing “Bachelor...
Credit Colin Firth and his toned torso emerging from a fountain in the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” for ushering in an era of Jane Austen fervor. Nearly 10 years after most women with a pulse realized Mark Darcy is the most eligible bachelor in fictional history comes “The Jane Austen Book Club,” a film adaptation of the popular novel by Karen Joy Fowler. The premise of “Book Club” is refreshingly intelligent. It is a step above standard romantic dramedy fare that...
Critics and state officials say the reason so many young men are expelled is not because they are failing to meet priestly standards, but for darker reasons: to winnow the bachelor pool so the group's leadership can add more young wives to their families. "No matter what happens to Jeffs, there's going to be a huge problem with little girls marrying old men, and huge problems with kicking boys out so they can marry these little girls," Tyler said. [Adults are exiled too. A year before Smith was expelled, his father was "kicked out" and his mother...
...Locke may have been exclusively Chinese, but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - which blocked Chinese immigration for more than 60 years -meant that it shared the bachelor culture of other Chinatowns in the U.S. Still, although gambling dens and brothels flourished, residents ran an organized, tight-knit community. Because the wooden buildings were susceptible to fire, an elderly town crier patrolled the streets every night. At half-hour intervals, he rapped on a wooden block, assuring everyone that all was well. The Delta Chinese were also politically active in support of democracy back home, raising substantial funds to support...
...irony, of course, is that the U.S. has never needed Bartholme more. The health-care system faces a deficit of as many as 1 million RNs by 2020. Yet American nursing programs turned away nearly 150,000 qualified applicants for all degree levels last year--including 38,415 from bachelor's programs--according to the National League for Nursing (NLN). The profession is trapped in a catch-22: hospitals, desperate for staff, poach nurses from one another with bonuses and perks. Nursing colleges can't fill the gap with new graduates because the schools can't compete in this overheated...