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...Over the years, the quaint little gurdwara on the Rudolfsheim Street on the outskirts of Vienna has become a hub of Sikh separatists who supported an insurgency in Punjab during the 1980s and 1990s. The insurgency was eventually stamped down by an iron-fisted state, and many of its supporters sought and received political asylum in Europe. As Austria's legal South Asian community has become more established, thousands of illegal Sikh migrants from all over Europe have gravitated there. "The gurdwara was lush with offerings from a nostalgic and large-hearted diaspora," says Ramesh Vinayak, who heads the Punjab...
...People may love what's next, but the Night at the Museum movies are a big swoony smooch to the old. Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) is our heroine, full of moxie and quaint phraseology. The Tuskegee airmen face off against Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone. Even big old marble Abe Lincoln gets to take his shot. (Hates pigeons, it turns...
...they are by a social historian—undoubtedly recognize that the future leaders who pass through this university will shape the institutions they go on to run after the institutions that raised them. One of President Drew G. Faust’s original, now quaint, initiatives was to inquire into why so many students were accepting unfulfilling jobs in the financial services industry after graduation. A case that students should instead follow their hearts and work to build a better society is inherently less convincing coming from a university that is run like an investment bank...
...whose behalf? Such solidarity is less typical of entrepreneurs than it is of terrorists and guerrillas. When Phillips' captors ran out of fuel, they radioed other pirate-held ships for help. There is talk of pirate dens on and near the Somali coasts: Harardhere, Eyl, Boosaaso. "Den" is a quaint, Peter Pan - ish way of putting it. "Enemy naval base" might be more...
...quaint as this image is and as marketable - check out the old-timey drawings on the sides of plastic maple syrup jugs - this is not the face of modern maple syrup making...