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Whats Up was founded by former Boston College student Aaron Goldstein, the magazine's publisher and editor-in-chief, who intended for the publication to be sold by homeless vendors...
Jesse A. Sage '98, executive editor of The Independent, says he "liked the idea of a student magazine to benefit the homeless" and worked out an agreement with Goldstein that allows Whats Up to reprint articles from The Independent...
...panel included George Mokray, a Central Square resident and scholar of economic development; Sarah James, the principal of Sarah James and Associates, a Cambridge community-planning and development consulting firm; Jason Upshaw, a 19-year-old entrepreneur in Central Square, and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Greater Boston director of Working Capital, a non-profit focused on assisting small business owners with training and peer lending...
...Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures, constituted one of the great spiritual bazaars of the 1970s. One of its most popular courses, after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, two former Peace Corps volunteers who returned from Southern Asia as adepts in the Theravadan practice's Vipassana meditation. Suddenly all three branches of Buddhism were teaching on American soil. It must be noted, however, that they did not necessarily teach here the way they taught anywhere else...
...where intense practice is left to the monks and the main devotion of laypeople is once-a-week temple offerings. "American people don't want to be monks and nuns," says Kornfield. "They want practices that transform the heart." The approach seemed to work: Kornfield's meditation seminars with Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg in Barre, Mass., and at Spirit Rock in California, turned out thousands of graduates. Zendos began spreading to Middle America, and when Chogyam Trungpa died in 1987 at age 47, a contingent of lay American-born Vajrayana Buddhists was able to perform the funeral liturgy along with...