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...psychedelic-drug studies with Timothy Leary in 1963 cost the young teacher his position at Harvard and started him off on a spiritual road on which he is still traveling. He found a different kind of high in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he met up with a guru known as the Maharaji. Out of that encounter came both the name Ram Dass and Be Here Now, his 1970s million-selling guide to higher consciousness. Published this month, Still Here speaks to a generation less concerned with turning on, tuning in and dropping out than with fearing the effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: A Generation of Gurus | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...that's not to say there aren't real advantages to Harvard's academic life. You might have trouble tracking down Af-Am guru Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. or former Reagan economic adviser Martin S. Feldstein '61 in person, but you can sit in on their lectures. (Though why you'd want to sit in on Marty's lectures is beyond...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard: The View From Inside | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

Performers did their best to prove that Boston does indeed have a substantive music scene. Gang Starr, receiving a Boston Hall of Fame Award, shared bumping beats and inspiring words with the audience. Guru, the rhyming side of the duo, said, "I left Boston with a duffel bag and a dream and somehow did something big." He also attempted to bridge the obvious and awkward gap between hip-hop artists on stage and the pop/rock fans that dominated the audience by giving a "Big-up to Godsmack -- I like your stuff." Not so much that they didn't bolt from...

Author: By Amber K. Lavicka, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prize of Fame | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

Peter Drucker, the management guru, writes that within a few short decades, society rearranges itself--its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, its key institutions. Fifty years later, there is a new world. For me, and for millions of Red Sox fans all over the world, Boston--and Red Sox baseball--are going through a transformation...

Author: By John Rouse, | Title: Fenway and Family Values | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...were, and we continue to be. Consider this year's ubiquitous insta-scripture, Who Moved My Cheese?, a 94-page handbook on success that currently tops three major best-seller lists--those of the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and USA Today. The work of M.D. turned management guru Spencer Johnson, whose One Minute Manager sold more than 7 million copies, the book has become the literary pet rock of the new economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cheesy Industry | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

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