Word: rubiner
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...Rubin became the new president, and the group changed its name in response to concerns over the pro-slavery views of namesake James Madison...
...grew out of the Madison Group, a liberal law society founded at Georgetown, founded by Professor Peter J. Rubin in 1999. Plans to take the group national crystallized this spring, as founders put in place a national structure and board of directors...
Giving away trinkets is a heck of a lot cheaper than shooting a video--and frequently much more effective. "The first 100,000 albums are always the hardest to sell, and that's the expertise Beno provides," says Rick Rubin, founder of the American Recordings label. "He gives you a way to get things started." Benveniste first tapped into the power of youth marketing while managing the heavy-metal group System of a Down after graduating from college. He hyped the band in Internet chat rooms, giving out his home phone number. When kids called up, he would play some...
...conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...take away all grooming implements and you get Ira, who considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions all the time," as a friend puts it. For Philadelphia, a social and political backwater in which consciousness raising...