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...view of adult authority. Jones provides John Hughes with the comic mainspring he needs to launch himself successfully in a new direction. In The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Hughes portrayed adolescent angst in a fairly realistic light. But from the moment Ferris turns to the camera to address the audience, we know that realism is out. Ferris and his adventures represent a teen's dream of glory: to have, at one's fingertips, the technical skills to sabotage the adult world's machinery of oppression and, at the tip of one's tongue, the perfect squelch for grownups...
TOKYO — Of all the things I was wondering about before my trip to Japan, one of my biggest questions was where I would live. When I received the address of the family that would be hosting me in Tokyo, I hastened to look up the area on a map and suddenly realized how big this place is. I am not a stranger to big cities and public transportation, but the map of the Tokyo subway system is intimidating to say the least...
...projected strength of only 80,000 troops. We need to at least double the size of the Afghan army and establish an international trust fund to provide long-term financing for the effort. We also need a stronger diplomatic effort. I will appoint a special presidential envoy to address disputes between Afghanistan and its neighbors...
...pilgrims are happy to oblige. At a rock concert after the service, they formed conga lines and sang along to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." Next day, when the Pope disembarked from a "boat-a-cade" on Sydney Harbor to address the crowds for the first time, the shouts and cheers out-decibeled any rock show...
Technology, sadly, is not all today's youth are savvy about. In his address, the Pope lamented the "confusion" and "despair" caused by alcohol, drug abuse, violence, sexual degradation and a corrosive consumerism "where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experiences displace truth." Resisting the hedonism of other teens is "hard," says Matt McHugh, of Hartford, Wisconsin, who's wearing jeans and a black Nirvana T-shirt. "You see other kids doing things and it looks fun and it's tempting, but then you look at where that's going to lead." Brenda Breuer, also from...