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...cover story on the perils of AMERICAN EATING cited emerging diet doctors, including today's low-carb guru, Robert Atkins...
DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDA-NANDA, 87, prodigiously bearded guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival; while attending a peace conference in Madras, South India. Satchidananda attracted hundreds of om-chanting followers, including the '60s psychedelic artist Peter Max, musician Carole King and heart doctor Dean Ornish...
DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA, 87, Indian guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival by teaching the crowds to chant "om"; in Madras. A native of South India, the thickly bearded swami went to the U.S. in 1966 on the crest of a wave of counterculture interest in Eastern religion, and he eventually served as spiritual adviser to such celebrities as Carole King, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. Satchidananda founded a number of ashrams, including Yogaville in Virginia, where he made his home. At Woodstock he shared the stage with rock luminaries Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
...also begun to teach. So far she has just one pupil - the college-student daughter of family friends. Though Anoushka says she's not an overly strict instructor, like her father, she demands plenty of practice. Q&A TIME: What was it like having your father as your musical guru? SHANKAR: Now we have a pretty good balance, but it was more difficult at the beginning. For example, learning to be more respectful and obedient in the music room made me a little shy around him outside. Because I was so young, he had to tailor the way he taught...
...YORK—Harvard journalism guru Alex S. Jones’ bid to become dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism was put on hold this week, as Columbia’s president announced Tuesday that the university is postponing its search for a new dean...