The two cultures made for a fine comedy of manners during sherry hour at Cambridge.
Obama presents himself as uniquely situated to bridge those two cultures because of his biracial heritage.
Snow's famous 1959 lecture (later a book), "The Two Cultures, " which caused an uproar in England and America.
Is it through government and privately sponsored dialogue groups between our two cultures?
For me, the differences between the two cultures are real but muted, and the subtleties are captured in food.
Officials at Columbia's medical school, however, seemed to value his "competence in two cultures, " science and literature, he says.
Snow was worrying about the two cultures, Aldous Huxley was actually living, and trying to resolve, the enduring tensions between science and art.
Because I am a Chinese native and American citizen, I have straddled two cultures and lived at the crossroads of the East and West.
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Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of carloads of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between our two cultures.
The service bridged Klebnikov's remarkable 41 years as well as the two cultures that influenced the first editor of FORBES RUSSIA, shot dead in Moscow July 9.
But when pressed for broader examples, members of the community resort to vague yet impassioned statements about a "way of life" and their fluency with two cultures.
One way to encourage a sense of participating in two cultures, rather than one, is to extend the availability of dual citizenship, something that developing countries have sometimes been reluctant to do.
Between them, the two symbolize, perhaps better than words can describe, the comparative level of architectural technology, the comparative level of craftsmanship and the comparative level of affluence and sophistication the two cultures had attained at that epoch of history.
At the same time seeing my family deal with the issues of racism, discrimination, and poverty in a community struggling with drugs and violence and the trying to raise a family in two cultures, our traditional culture and that of society, brought much pain and confusion.
Now that it seems likely a comet has drawn a sharp line of charcoal between the two cultures, careful measurements should be able to show whether North America was, for a few centuries after the impact, as bereft of people as it has since been of mammoths.
Making the deal work will hinge on making decisions fast, getting buy-in from leaders at both companies, ditching redundant product lines and integrating two different cultures, says Travelport Chief Executive Jeff Clarke, one of two executives who led the HP-Compaq integration team.
The process of merging the two corporate cultures was troubled at the start, a UTV manager says.
The tense balance between the two conservative cultures of honor and prudence would be tipped in one way or the other.
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The part of the business that sold cars and the part that made the loans were "two different cultures" when it came to credit quality, he says, and couldn't be welded effectively.
Result: The recombination of two very different cultures, compensation approaches and regulatory setups for clients.
Two of seven cultures sent back to Atlanta for testing have been confirmed as Coxsackie B.
After working in two totally different cultures, I now know what one I will NEVER work in again.
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The two banks' cultures, which are about as far apart as you could imagine, are sure to clash.
Given the historical antipathy between these two sharply contrasting cultures, everyone is watching to see if they can work together congenially.
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But there will also be problems, beginning with the two firms' cultures.
"We're finding that people walking around with two types of cultures in their heads approach solutions more creatively, " Maddux told me by phone.
Nor does it require similarity of size: mergers of equals seem to be especially tricky, perhaps because they disrupt two strong corporate cultures, and they often throw up intractable problems of leadership.
"It's very important to look at the culture before you start the job, " says Sarah Stamboulie, a career coach who had to confront two very different cultures at a crossroads in her own career.
There are also plenty of other ways to develop a company's scientific and selling skills: research agreements, licensing arrangements and marketing alliances between drug companies, biotechnology firms and other bodies are all less traumatic than forcing two different corporate cultures into one bed.
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