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Fort Meade, MD

Photo date: 01-22-2014

Photo by Nate Pesce

Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri stands for photo in front of the USO sign.
Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri visited the Fort Meade USO office on January 22. She signed autographs, took pictures, and met with soldiers from different branches of the military.Gallery

    Book Review: Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture by Vanita Reddy

Book Review: Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture by Vanita Reddy

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In Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture, Vanita Reddy examines how beauty is a mobilising and socialising force implicated in the shaping of South Asian American identities, focusing on a range of cultural and literary texts drawn from the 1990s to the present. In showing beauty to be an active force in constructions of the social, […]

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    The interlock between company boards and investment banks in the early 1900s

The interlock between company boards and investment banks in the early 1900s

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Acting as underwriters and directors, bankers had conflicts of interest, but also facilitated the flow of information, write Carola Frydman and Eric Hilt.

In the early twentieth century, most American public companies had a partner or director from a top-ranked investment bank on their boards. Market participants generally believed that the banker-directors of that era monitored company management on behalf […]

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