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...estimate that in some regions of Punjab - home to 60% of India's 14.6m Sikhs - as many as 80% of Sikhs no longer comply. And that may reflect the generational conflict in many a Sikh household, between conservative parents and children who want to break free. Dr. Rajesh Gill, a sociologist at Panjab University whose 18-year-old son sports a turban, speaks for many Sikh parents when she says, "A turban is a Sikh's pride, and I don't want my son to shear his hair once he becomes more independent...
...Recording Academy is a hipper-than-average grandparent. It sort of understands what's going on in music, but it is easily confused, and this year's 50th annual Grammy nominations, announced this morning, prove it. Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill for album of the year? A record of the year nod for Corrine Bailey Rae's Like a Star, which isn't just aggressively dull, but was first released in 2005? A best new artist nomination for veteran singer Leslie Feist? As pop cultural statements go, these are the equivalent of "Who stole my glasses...
...like simple,” she said. One daily rider, Steven Dougan, explained his roundabout path home during some delays. “I would go all the way to Lechmere to catch a train home,” he said. And a Braintree resident, Sue A. Gill, said she has even abandoned land travel altogether to avoid T delays. “I [have] had to take the boat back home,” she said...
...Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill I empathize with this author because of my days on Dorm Crew, when I’d think about how the grueling physical labor made me more humble and spiritually centered. It’s funny how well you can rationalize something when you’re scrubbing a toilet. Enough about me, though: just take a gander at Michael Gates Gill’s view of the hard-working commoner: fat, bald, and leaning on a mop. Either way, hidden...
...squad took 10th place at the Gill Co-ed National Championship hosted by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The Crimson finished in sixth place in B-division and 11th in A, earning 301 total points, just 34 fewer than Hobart/William Smith in 11th place. College of Charleston was crowned as the 2007 national champions, beating Dartmouth in a one-point nail-biter...