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...Kerik never fit the profile of most other members in Giuliani's posse. While they spent their 20s and 30s attending prestigious colleges and law schools, Kerik was facing tests they couldn't imagine. He was born in Newark, N.J., to an alcoholic father and a street-walking mother. His parents drifted to Ohio in the 1950s and separated when he was 2. His mother left Kerik in the care of a new boyfriend's mother until his father turned up after a few months and rescued him. He never saw his mother again. After high school, Kerik joined...
Forget a hero's welcome. After being held hostage by Kurdish guerrillas for two weeks and released last week after a Washington-led diplomatic effort, eight Turkish soldiers have been called traitors and cowards and detained. The eight - all in their late teens and early 20s - are being charged with disobeying orders, "suspicion of crime" and "going to a foreign country without permission," the last presumably referring to their captivity under Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq...
...advice service and even passport photos printed as you wait. The company has 1,019 kiosks in nine states and is aiming to open an additional 3,000 in the next two years. Each kiosk is run by an entrepreneur from the village, typically a man in his mid-20s. The cost of a kiosk package--computer, digital camera, Internet connection over a cell-phone line, and printer--is $1,500, which is paid back over a few years. Each entrepreneur also pays a fixed monthly fee of $11. For that, there is help if anything goes wrong with...
...part he makes now-peripheral figures like Franz Lehár and Roy Harris feel as relevant as Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland—or even Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley.According to the Observer, Ross didn’t hear his first Dylan record until he reached his 20s, so there may yet be hope for Joyce-loving English concentrators with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills. It will take a populist’s appreciation for the common man, an intellectual’s pure curiosity, a sentimentalist?...
...your finger when you turn the page.” Especially since you can’t lick a finger to turn Web-pages. The vid for “Neon Bible” makes me feel old, regardless of the fact that I have yet to hit my 20s. —Anna I. Polonyi