How best to encapsulate the difference between early baby boomers and late boomers/Gen X? Well, in their formative years, the early boomers had Hendrix, Dylan, and Joplin. The late boomers/Gen Xers, and early Ys had music, well, like this:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0A7dtdc-nU[/youtube](This is actually a spoof, from Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore's movie, Music and Lyrics.

Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.

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