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...footsteps. A century ago, there was Dostoyevsky on the one hand and Dickens on the other. You could be a doomed bohemian man of principle, or you could be popular, but it was pretty hard to be both. Beginning around 1965, however, rock's big stars became a new breed of living oxymoron: it was possible to become rich and even powerful by striking extravagant poses of contempt for the rich and powerful. In theory, ''selling out'' was a major cultural felony, but in fact it was almost impossible to be convicted. For the mass audience, icons like Mick Jagger...
...years before Pearl Jam was even formed. What's new is that the record charts are now crowded with alternative bands ranging from the arty-rock quartet Smashing Pumpkins to the folk-tinged Soul Asylum. MTV's Alternative Nation program and the Lollapalooza road tour, which feature the new breed, have become the hippest venues going...
...Jeffords and Chafee were members of a dying breed - the liberal New England Republican. McCain, on the other hand, was a Western conservative from Arizona who had gone to Congress as a Reagan Republican. But after the searing experience of getting entangled in the Keating Five scandal in the 1980s, McCain had grown increasingly independent, pursuing campaign-finance reform and other causes that made his fellow Republicans doubt his ideological convictions...
...story of Buddhism in India comes back to its beginnings. In his book An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, author Pankaj Mishra describes the troubled times in which the Buddha appeared. Dissatisfied with lives regimented around work, he writes, people gathered to listen to a new breed of freethinking philosopher, "India's first cosmopolitan thinkers." Those disaffected seekers came together in groves and parks built near the cities of the sixth-century B.C. Gangetic Plain. But any 21st century Delhi-ite would surely recognize the tensions driving their search for spiritual clarity...
...Amazon), Wroblewski, a veteran programmer, may be the first software dude to hit it big. (And with a debut novel, at that.) The book itself has absolutely nothing to do with technology - it's a Hamlet-like tale about a mute boy who raises a special (and fictional) breed of dogs on a farm in Wisconsin. Yet Wroblewski says that being a software writer helped him craft the novel and gave him some insight into the mechanics of breaking down the project into manageable components, and seeing it through...