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...exercises first became known among athletes for their ability to heal injuries. In the 1950s such dancers as George Balanchine and Martha Graham became devotees. After a brief public boom in the 1970s, the system went back to the ballerinas. But in the past few years the exercise has begun to break through, in large part because of celebrity hype. "I always want to be doing what Madonna is doing," cracks author Jennifer Belle...
Last weekend Dr. K stumbled onto a little get together in Brookline at The Country Club. While not on the guest list, Dr. K fit blended in quite handsomely in her 1950s fashion. Supposedly a masquerade party, Dr. K only saw wannabe '50s and '20s get ups. Where's the creativity in the Harvard elite...
Affable and street-wise, Weill, 65, grew up middle class in Brooklyn and started his career on Wall Street in the 1950s as a messenger for Bear Stearns Co. By the early 1960s he had raised $200,000, and 15 acquisitions later he built Shearson Loeb Rhoades into the nation's second largest brokerage. In 1981 American Express bought Shearson, and Weill tagged along, hoping one day to succeed CEO James Robinson. He preceded him instead, leaving in 1985; Robinson was bounced...
...young seminary teacher, Khomeini was no activist. From the 1920s to the 1940s, he watched passively as Reza Shah, a monarch who took Ataturk as his model, promoted secularization and narrowed clerical powers. Similarly, Khomeini was detached from the great crisis of the 1950s in which Reza Shah's son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi turned to America to save himself from demonstrators on Tehran's streets who were clamoring for democratic reform...
...living in peaceful times, but short, temporary bursts of tranquillity have followed all the major wars of this century--think of the Roaring Twenties and the boom years of the 1950s. Our challenge now is to ensure that the current era of peace and prosperity continues long after the close of the cold war. It will demand as activist an agenda as that long fight did. The next 100 years will bubble with questions that are as difficult as the ones we have faced in this century. Perhaps, because of their incredible subtlety, these questions are even more difficult...