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...read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into one of a dozen look-alike buildings. We go up the labyrinthine stairs...
Budnitz, 38, a restless polymath from Berkeley, Calif., works from a Manhattan office that looks like a cross between a designer workshop and Peewee's Playhouse. "I've discovered something that uses all the things I've done," he says. That's no small feat. At 17 he was helping his father's colleague write risk-analysis software for nuclear power plants; by 21 he had an art degree from Yale. He got inspiration for his toys from artists in Hong Kong and Japan...
...with performances by members of the wider Boston community. BAF’s broad cross-cultural ambition will be displayed in full force on Saturday, Mar. 4, when participants will be encouraged to participate in a hands-on exploration of black art forms by attending one of the many workshops open to anyone interested. Options range from an Expression workshop to a trip to the Afro-Brazilian world of Capoeira. The event will conclude on Sunday with the “Big Easy Jazz Brunch” which will focus on New Orleans and the redemptive effects of music...
...Rams’ guard Adam Timmerman, an 11-year veteran of the NFL, said he does not want to join the ranks of NFL players who he said go bankrupt following retirement. Over the next month, the players will develop potential business plans on their own, which they will workshop and refine during the second module of the program from April 3-5. The same number of players will participate in the program next year while the NFLPA sizes up how program veterans apply their HBS skills to future business ventures. Indianapolis Colts safety Gerome Sapp said he has been...
...their perceptions of their own culture,” the website reads. The growth and development that occur as a result of studying abroad can often lead students to feel estranged from their peers.In addition to meeting with a counselor at the OIP, returning students can take a workshop offered by the Bureau of Study Council. “Returning from Abroad: When a new person returns to an old world” encourages students to discuss their problems with each other.Although many students may find coming back difficult, most regain their footing fairly quickly, according to Lauren Oliver...