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...learn to imitate everyone else without a real deficit," Jarrett warns. "I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Keith Jarrett and the True You | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

First, objectivism has as many adherents as it does because Rand's fiction (We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) continues to influence high-school and college students, most of whom I suspect have had only a superficial exposure to philosophy. This privileges them to conclude rather wrongly that Ayn Rand is an original and deep thinker. Second, her books are accessible to the lay-reader while Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger are not. Third, objectivism is sexy because it has appropriated the term "selfishness" to mean everything heroic...

Author: By Chris H. Kwak, | Title: Critique of Pure Nonsense | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

That's been a boon to people like Renee Buckley, 27, who last month began work at an Intel chip plant after several semesters at Maricopa, where the company paid her $2,100-a-year tuition. A 1988 high-school grad, she had worked odd jobs and studied to be a nurse before lighting on microchips. "I wanted a good job in a growing field," she says. "This now looks like the most promising job I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

There were, however, some protests this year. Jovenes Rebeldes, a band of high-school age Latinos, gathered outside the United Center, clad in skimasks and bandanas, demanding freedom for political prisoners and an end to the embargo of Cuba...

Author: By Malka A. Older, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Young Democrats Play Major Role in Chicago Convention | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

There were, however, some protests this year. Jovenes Rebeldes, a band of high-school age Latinos, gathered outside the United Center, clad in skimasks and bandanas, demanding freedom for political prisoners and an end to the embargo of Cuba...

Author: By Malka A. Older, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Young Democrats Play Major Role in Chicago Convention | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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