Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters 10.37am GMT Burmese children wishing to become novice Buddhist monks, wait for an initiation ceremony at Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon.
They were among the 2,000 newest recruits of the New York City Teaching Fellows program who gathered yesterday in a ballroom near Herald Square for an initiation rite of sorts, followed by the beginning of a crash course in how to teach.
At the beginning of "A Walk to Remember," Landon Carter Shanee West), a troubled North Carolina teenager, gathers with a bunch of his beer-drinking, blaspheming buddies for an initiation rite, which goes terribly wrong when another young man jumps off some industrial scaffolding into a shallow river.
He told the Spectator it was "a ridiculous story," adding: "As far as I know David Cameron was never a member of the Piers Gaveston Society, so there would have been no need for an initiation ceremony.
For an initiation deposit of $140,000 (plus annual dues and per-bottle costs), you get the right to work several vine rows and shepherd your precious cabernet sauvignon and merlot berries through harvesting, fermentation, barreling and bottling.
The region has always had its share of elite, members-only establishments: The Gotham Club (which costs $2,500 in initiation fees and $1,250 in annual dues), the Club at Wingtip ($2,500 for an initiation fee and $3,000 in annual dues), and the Bohemian Club ($25,000 for an initiation fee and annual dues somewhere between $1,000 and $8,000).
Andy Dalton, the Bengals' rookie quarterback, is in for quite an initiation.
Our data also indicate that GLV IRES may follow a distinct pathway for forming an initiation complex.
He had been patrolling this street for 10 years and understood that the beating was an initiation for a new member of Chicano Nation, a Mexican street gang.
For freelancers, rehearsals are an initiation by endurance.
For Ms. Foster, it was an initiation that she will never forget.
