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I came across Chris Stimson when working on Ric Fazekas’ memoir, since they had collaborated on a record label group together. Chris similarly had a long and intriguing career in the music industry, having worked with Iron Maiden and Duran Duran, and helped popularize the music video, some of which was featured in Ric’s book. Recently, however, I came across an article buried deep in the Internet that sheds more light on Chris' career, and I am re-posting it here: CHRIS STIMSON ’69 STILL ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD  What do a Loden coat, a Tandberg reel to reel tape deck, and a twelve-string guitar have in common? Working a cup a jo, Chris Stimson would not be so immodest as to suggest that he was a young man in control of his options, although he knows full well his family provided an environment where freedom could be enjoyed. His father was a spooky air attaché to the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway in the late 60s, but that suited Chris just fine. He had a mind to stay in Europ...

The English Wars After Twenty-Five Years Dismantling Bilingual Education in American Public Schools by RON UNZ (Republished from the Unz Review) California and the English Wars The English Wars began twenty-five years ago. ..On a May 1997 morning I stood in the  Las Familias del Pueblo  daycare center in downtown Los Angeles and announced that I had filed an initiative to dismantle California’s decades-old system of “bilingual education” for Latino immigrant children, a curriculum that amounted to Spanish-almost-only instruction. Although the press conference was quite well-attended, including seven television cameras, most media outlets were probably drawn more by the scent of extreme political controversy with a sharp ethnic tinge than from any realistic expectations that a program so enormous and so deeply entrenched was facing any serious threat to its survival. Over the next six years, the “English” issue roiled the political landscape in California and several other stat...