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...PLEASE DO NOT RING THE BELL UNLESS YOU ARE EXPECTED, reads the sign outside Singh's apartment in New Delhi?a surprisingly inhospitable welcome, given the author's reputation as a bon vivant ready to down glasses of whisky or trade bawdy jokes with visitors. Singh, 88, is one of India's most prolific writers. In addition to his previous four novels well known either for their wrenching portrayals of moral conflict or for their brazen, over-the-top eroticism, he has written scholarly works on the history of India's Sikhs, numerous short stories and newspaper columns, translated Urdu...
Ideal first date: A sweaty Bell Tower party...
First off, the quality of students at schools like Princeton and Harvard is high and, often, most students fit into the top tier. To try to enforce some kind of bell curve is illogical. Rather than properly distributing grades, a bell curve forced on campuses like Harvard and Princeton makes minute mistakes dramatically important in an effort to differentiate between students. It also means some students get graded poorly for good work so that quotas...
BRAMWELL: The big surprise is that interest rates, which are low, could go lower. On a bell-shaped curve from 1950 to 2010, the midpoint is 1980. Rates went up the first half of this period and are coming down the second half, with incredible symmetry. At 2010 on this curve, long rates are at 2%. Money will flow where the most attractive returns are likely...
...white, sweet and most closely reminiscent in flavor to clam. But in the Bahamas' own original fast food?ubiquitous across the archipelago?the mollusk is turned into a fritter. Made from ground conch meat (it's on the chewy side, so is often minced to tenderize it), onion, bell peppers and hot seasonings mixed with batter and deep fried, conch fritters have an almost indefinable,spicy-with-a-hint-of-the-ocean taste. A home-cooked staple, conch fritters also feature as appetizers in many a Bahamian restaurant. Try them (six for $4.75) at local favorite The Poop Deck...