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“This story was up against pieces from kids at places like Duke and Kentucky, two schools with fantastically active college sports cultures,” he said. “If people, especially students, think that there aren’t interesting and compelling sports stories and...
From his very first book - 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru - a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does through his latest book, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. Naipaul's intention with this slim...
Commander Daniel Maher, Pennington's current supervisor, attributes her success to her ability to communicate across cultures--military, medical or ethnic. But Pennington credits her leadership skills to the inspiration she receives from others and her desire to give something back. "It wasn't always easy to balance a military...
A look at American society lends support to both stories. It is true that Asians are often thought of as ready assimilationists—“honorary whites,” so to speak—who adapt easily to host cultures and values. Asians are an immigrant group...
According to Cornell professor William M. Lynn, nations that tip usually embrace materialism and status. Egalitarian-minded nations tend not to have robust tipping cultures. Furthermore, tip prevalence seems to be negatively related to the tax burden within a country. It’s harder to tip when more of...