As their intakes are usually much smaller, they can feel more intimate; cohorts are more closely bound and student:teacher ratios lower.
Asian capital markets, too, are more closely bound to global markets than to each other.And communautaire pigs may flyAsia's elites agree with the common analysis: that a rebalancing of growth is needed away from exports to the West and more towards fostering local demand instead.
But if that happened, the only serious question would be about the status of foreign forces from other countries, who provide more than 17,000 troops and whose legal status for being here is still more closely bound with the United Nations agreement.
Nick Pegna, managing director of British merchant Berry Bros & Rudd's Hong Kong branch, says the obsession with those big names shows that fine wine consumption in mainland China is even more closely bound to status than it is in the west.
The rise to power of conservative Islamist parties has also raised concerns that Egyptian national identity is becoming more closely bound to Islam.
Moreover, Ukraine is culturally far more closely bound to Moscow than Georgia had been.
They are sometimes right, but often wrong.Since the start of the year ASEAN bigwigs have been talking up how much more closely bound the region is becoming with the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community, a collection of regional trade agreements which are supposed to take effect by the end of 2015.
Hazing provides an environment of adversity that brings the individuals together, and the more closely bound they are to each other the more closely bound they are to the group as a whole and more invested -- not only in signing off on the rituals, values and beliefs of the house as it exists, but passing them along to succeeding generations".
P.S. There's another type of celebrity, one that remains even more closely bound to the wild life: the Kardashian/Hilton sort, or, stardom without talent.
