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By Karen E. Klein (Bloomberg) From selling typewriters in his native Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s to wrestling with Microsoft (MSFT) in the 1990s as the co-founder and chief executive of open-source software company Red Hat (RHT), Bob Young has been a fiercely competitive serial entrepreneur. His latest venture is 9-year-old Lulu.com, a website...
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In this excerpt from a 1967 story in ‘Cheetah’ magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are just as hip as the Beatles Comment4 By JULES SIEGEL November 3, 2011 1:40 PM ET Band leader Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band “The Beach Boys” poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, CA...
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His obituary has been placed in the public domain on the Gutenberg site (which is currently giving an access forbidden error message) . I corresponded with him occasionally and I feel a great sense of loss. This was a man who loved books in their purest sense. By Dr. Gregory B. Newby Michael Stern...
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The definition of neurosis is very simple. If we agree that 2+2 = 4 is reality, then the psychotic says 2+2 = apples don’t like bananas, or something equally uncooperative, but the neurotic says, yes, 2+2 = 4 but I can’t stand it. Much of the pain that the individual faces in accepting reality...
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On a smog-dark day early in 1972, a bright neon whirlpool of color and sound and movement circulated through and around the former church and convent of Our Lady of Montserrat, a vacant Baroque ruin in a commercial district near the center of Mexico City. Alejandro Jodorowsky was shooting one of the opening scenes...
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