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...turned to the Internet, I verified the shocking information I had just heard; I saw that I hadn’t been lied to. Sure enough, the Weathermen—who rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign of pre-announced bombings of dozens of public...
...Perhaps Bob Dylan was right—in the 1960s, at the height of American radicalism, it probably didn’t take a weatherman to see where the country was headed. It’s unfortunate that today, it takes an Argentine to see where we Americans came from. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. He just wants the truth...
Clearly not all comics are troubled. Many, like Bob Newhart and Jay Leno, have enjoyed long marriages and relatively quiet lives. But plenty of others, like John Belushi and Chris Farley, died as the result of addictions. No one has studied the mental health of comics specifically - it's pretty hard to get celebrities to agree to answer a nosy mental health survey - but "there's a high rate of mood disorders among performers in general," says Andrew Leuchter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles who has treated comics. "This is a high stress...
...Bob Steers, the firm's co-CEO, won't shy from speaking up when he feels a takeout isn't fair. "Oh, absolutely," he said. "Our fiduciary obligation is to maximize the returns and the valuation for our investors." Carl Icahn more recently suffered a similar predicament when shareholders rebelled against his offer for auto-parts maker Lear Corp., forcing him to cough up more cash. And several PE financings have flopped because investors balked at the lenient loan terms...
...many vets, Nicholson, who had served in Vietnam, never strenuously pushed their interests. "He's not the most outgoing guy, and in this business that becomes a negative," said Bob Wallace of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Bobby Muller of Veterans of America said Nicholson "consistently deferred to the political considerations of the Bush Administration, instead of what he should have done as an advocate for his country's veterans...