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...have "left" religion. In the 2008 survey, 16% of Americans said they had no religious affiliations, but of that group, only 10% identified themselves as atheists and 15% as agnostics. Far from joining in religion-bashing, roughly 4 out of 10 currently unaffiliated said religion is at least somewhat important in their life. And many said they are still hoping to eventually find the right religious home. Among those who were raised Catholic or Protestant, the study says, "1 in 3 say they just have not found the right religion yet." (Read "Finding God on YouTube...
...Singapore, it seems, is suffering somewhat less than it appears. Unlike the U.S., where companies slash jobs at the first sign of financial trouble, many of Singapore?s largest companies are controlled by the government. Retrenchments at such government-linked giants as offshore oil rig builder Keppel Corporation, shipper Neptune Orient Lines, or DBS Bank are considered a last resort, after pay cuts, reduced employer contributions to retirement funds, and unpaid leave. A spokesperson for Singapore Airlines, for example, confirmed that in early April roughly a tenth of the airline's 14,000 employees had agreed to take unpaid leave...
After the Bauhaus school closed in 1933, Kandinsky and his wife, Nina, went to France, settling in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Instead of being surrounded by like-minded colleagues, he was now somewhat isolated. He had been experimenting in new directions before he left the Bauhaus, but his isolation, and freedom from the need to be didactic, may explain the playfulness that breaks out in his work. He carefully mixed colors - sage, sky blue, maroon - and experimented with texture, using controlled paint splatter for a sandy effect. Nothing is still: in Colorful Ensemble (1938) the splatters are a background of dots...
...again, beginning in “Less Than Zero,” continuing through his seminal work, “American Psycho,” and into a follow-up collection of short stories, “The Informers”—lately made into a somewhat uncomfortable film.Simon & Schuster, the New York publishing house, gave Ellis a huge advance on “American Psycho” after the 21-year-old author launched with “Zero” while still an undergraduate at Bennington College, and then gave him another almost as big when...
...money to help? A few dozen of the wealthiest schools, including Stanford, Princeton and Williams, have pledged to meet every applicant's financial need and don't set caps on how much aid they'll give. But even at colleges with limited resources, the financial-aid budget is somewhat elastic, since some students who were offered aid decide to matriculate elsewhere. "We do tend to unencumber a certain percentage of the financial aid that we've offered to students," says Tom Melecki, director of student financial services at the University of Texas at Austin. "We're hopeful that...