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...year history, but the irony is that nothing has changed, really, in terms of the medical types that this institution puts out. Langone makes a rather severe, but convincing generalization, that "It is, and is likely to remain, mostly a haven for `3-M's'--male medical magistri, gowned gurus who are far more scholar, researcher, and specialist than empathetic, readily-available healers...
...these changes led to a good deal of talkabout new eras and new consciousness dawning. Afew classmates drifted off to one commune oranother, and various gurus developed followings...
...financial gurus who attempt to predict the markets' eddies and gyrations are increasingly and publicly beginning to demonstrate their growing political power. This development explains why Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs Chairman Robert E. Rubin `60 is the most important man in the country...
...though, the future "savior'' began to find his niche. He set up a yoga school that proved to be quite successful. Even if a former student recalls that in those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment...
Under the heading "Gurus," an item in the January Esquire reported that HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and New Age writer Marianne Williamson were frequent lunch companions and that the author of A Woman's Worth had even tried her hand at presidential speechwriting. Last week the First Lady replied. "[Williams] is neither my guru nor my spiritual adviser," she wrote. Still, Clinton does admire Williamson. "She is a political supporter who has an intriguing view about popular culture." Clinton did not address the speechwriting question...