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...family." Sound familiar? It's the Striedter Bunch. Jurij and Emanuela Striedter, co-masters of Cabot House, met in Germany through a mutual friend. Mrs. Striedter owned a bookstore and Professor Striedter was buying a book; their love of knowledge brought them together in matrimony as well as to academia and residence in the United States...
...they followed the mantra ``Turn on, tune in and drop out,'' college students of the '60s also dropped academia's traditional disdain for business. ``Do your own thing'' easily translated into ``Start your own business.'' Reviled by the broader social establishment, hippies found ready acceptance in the world of small business. They brought an honesty and a dedication to service that was attractive to vendors and customers alike. Success in business made them disinclined to ``grow out of'' their countercultural values, and it made a number of them wealthy and powerful at a young...
...Smith is not along in exemplifying the new Gestapo-guidelines of artistic academia. Pick up any poetry journal or writers' anthology; what you'll get everywhere is warmed-over histrionics and clamor...
...arrives, pretending like you have a clue. However, that's pretty dishonest, not to mention a waste of time, Tell her. If your mother loves you, she will understand. if she doesn't, explain to her all the useful things you can do with Folk and Myth (like academia or running Columbia Pictures like Folk and Myth grad Lisa Henson) and how you just weren't cut out for medicine. Be honest. Lying will only make you more upset...
...academia, government and the press have risen to document and condemn these troubling trends in the current political dialogue. If this responsibility continues to be shirked by those who would be attacked by Limbaugh and his kind, it is hard to imagine who could pick up the slack. Eddie Vedder has a resonant voice, and appeals to a large audience, but Pearl Jam will be touring this year...