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...found a widening gap between fees charged at the 300 largest banks (which account for most mergers) and at small banks and credit unions. "You used to be able to walk in without a deposit slip, and they'd just hand you one," says Skip Shipman, a florist in Woodstock, Ga., whose local bank was acquired by McColl in 1996. "Then NationsBank started charging a dollar for a deposit slip." After a wave of protests, the bank halted the practice last year. But complaints persist about other fees and services...
What took place at Bethel, ostensibly, was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which was billed by its youthful Manhattan promoters as "An Aquarian Exposition" of music and peace. The festival turned out to be history's largest happening. As the moment when the special culture of U.S. youth of the '60s openly displayed its strength, appeal and power, it may well rank as one of the significant political and sociological events...
...restroom, an amalgam of Woodstock and West Side Story, has graffiti exceeding even the Lamont third floor women's room in its abundance and occasional creativity. If the industrial metal stall doors are supposed to scream Def Leppard to the child of the '80s, then the walls of psychedelic patterns straight out of Fantasia will comfort an older generation...
...time half a million hippies danced button fly to button fly at Woodstock 28 years ago, the miners' blue jeans first made by Levi Strauss in 1873 had been adopted as the uniform for class rebellion. But the enduring, red-tagged faded blues have recently earned another reputation. "My mom wears Levi's," says Hannah Gasner, 15, a Manhattan high school sophomore, uttering the words that youth marketers dread. "I think about them as the first jeans invented. Levi's are reliable...
...something promising has been happening. In concert, Dylan has been regaining strength. At the 25th anniversary of Woodstock in 1994, on his MTV Unplugged album in 1995 and in concert recently at Jones Beach, outside New York City, Dylan displayed a renewed focus and grace. He has also been touring with stars of the new folkie set--punk-folk rocker Ani DiFranco and pop-folk star Jewel have opened his shows. One wonders: Does he stand in the wings and watch these young women perform? What does he feel as he sees his son Jakob, of the folk-rock band...