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Going along for the ride on every trip is Earl Nickles, a train buff and local barber who'll give you an on-train trim for a $5 donation. Most of the streamliners of yesteryear had barbershops, Nickles explains. They were "an amenity for business travelers from the '30s to the late '50s. It was all part of the time when train travel was gracious" www.overlandtrail.com 800-KEY-RAIL...
...Keeping a constant finger on the pulse of America, these stores have given up the traditional paper gift certificate of yesteryear for a more modern substitute. Seen as much more convenient for the customer as well as being environmentally friendly, these cards boast aesthetically pleasing designs and varying rainbow color motifs...
...more or less emasculated by society. He lives in a trendy, tidy apartment and attends several therapy groups. He hasn't really experienced what it's like to be a true man; sensitivity and political correctness have taken the place of honesty and national pride. While the heroes of yesteryear were war veterans and self-made men, the male superstars of today are stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, someone who cares more about his hair than about football. (Even Elvis, who certaintly cared about his hair, enlisted at one point.) Pride, courage and masculinity are altogether dead in this pretty...
...final clubs at Harvard have seen better days. With their doors closed to outsiders--for some even to members--they are no longer the party places of yesteryear. As the punch season draws to a close, the message Harvard now sends to final clubs seems to be one of peaceful co-existence: We pretend you don't exist, you pretend our rules don't apply. Yet the question remains, how can the University hasten their...
...demonstrators of yesteryear opposed military intervention in places like Vietnam, El Salvador and Nicaragua on the grounds that the real problem in these places was not communism but poverty. And the solution was not war but economic assistance. As Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983 address opposing President Reagan's request for military aid to El Salvador, "We must hear the cry for bread and schools, work and opportunity, that comes from campesinos everywhere in this hemisphere." Well, it turns out that the best cure for the poverty the left so agonized about then is precisely what...