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Saying youth in the 1960s were the impetus for passage of the major civil rights an environmental protection legislation, Kerry urged the students to "recognize the power that you have...
...shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P. primary electorate dominates the nominating process. On the other hand, the prospect of two moderates, Kemp and Colin Powell, battling the likes of Pat Buchanan could make the 1960s struggle for the party's soul seem tame by comparison...
...hard to dispute the data that show parochial schools to be the best hope in a bad neighborhood. In the U.S. the Roman Catholic Church operates 8,293 elementary and secondary schools with 2.6 million students, about half the number of their peak years in the mid-to-late 1960s. Due in part to a simultaneous decline in Catholic religious vocations, priests and nuns are largely gone from the classroom, replaced by lay professionals who now make up more than 85% of parochial-school personnel...
...character named Paul Theroux moves chronologically, chapter by chapter, through a life that is identical in all external details to the biographical sketches familiar to author Paul Theroux's readers. First comes his stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the mid-1960s, followed by a period in Singapore, where he teaches English and begins attracting attention as a promising young novelist. Then comes the long sojourn in London, where, as an American expatriate and the happily married father of two sons, he writes novels (The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast) that firm up his reputation and livelihood...
...these operations sound more military than medical, there is good reason. Back in the 1960s and '70s, public-health experts felt they had pretty much triumphed over infectious diseases. Smallpox was on the way to extinction; polio was all but vanquished; and, thanks to antibiotics, improving sanitation and pesticides, such maladies as tuberculosis, cholera and malaria were on the run. One by one, humankind's deadliest scourges were being wiped from the earth...