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...makes sense that we associate largely with people of the same age. This phenomenon is common across age groups; a study by University of Berkeley sociologist Claude Fischer found that 72 percent of the close friends of Detroit men were within eight years of their age. However, the possibility of a non-age diverse friend circle is magnified at colleges because in most campus situations everyone living close to you is your age. “Residential proximity, age homogeneity, similarity and complementarity,” are the descriptors of adult friendships according to the “Encyclopedia...
Members of the Portuguese-speaking community—which includes those from Brazil and Cape Verde—number close to 15,000 in Cambridge, and as much as 1 million by conservative estimates in Massachusetts, according to Pinto...
...meet until after graduation when they both worked with the same startup, Cambridge Technology Partners. After three or four years as close friends and running buddies, the two started dating before they both pursued multiple graduate degrees at Harvard. By the end of their education, Rakesh Khurana had earned an A.M. in sociology and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, while his wife had an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School and an M.B.A. from the Business School...
...work as if he were giving his reader a privileged view into his private journals. The new poems of “The Apple Trees at Olema” show that Robert Hass continues to write verse that approaches both the natural and the human world with a close, scientific eye. This new collection is a celebration of the beauty he finds in the order of both human and non-human life...
...allies. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Pakistan, the original patron of the Taliban, which has also been going through the motions of indulging American concerns while continuing to enable the Afghan Taliban insurgency and identifying Karzai as an adversary because of his regime's close ties with India...