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...Most disappointing of all is that no one in the entire process is blameless, including the homeowners. In signing the mortgages as financially responsible adults??albeit at the urging of greedy brokers—many of these borrowers lie about their income. Perhaps foreclosure then is the rightful resolution for those who took on loans that they had no prayer of repaying...
Many people—especially young adults??tune into the radio for music or other purposes and end up getting some news in addition, Patterson said...
Even more jarring is the Israeli conception of maturation—the process of becoming “independent adults?? that we are told will be so challenging before freshman year—is entirely different from what people see as maturation elsewhere. I felt like a toddler in the presence of friends and relatives who were my age or just a few years older. Since graduating high school, Israeli youngsters have completed basic training, learned to fire a gun, and some even patrolled the streets of the West Bank. Others fought in a war and seen brothers...
...life? You might assume I am operating from a position of self-interest here, and perhaps there is some of that; however, I would like to believe that my position is based on a far loftier idea about transmission of democratic values and ideas at a time in young adults?? lives when they are open to considering the philosophical underpinnings of their beliefs...
...placed close to one another in the Houses, people remain largely self-contained entities that escape each other’s influence. And though randomization may have produced some superficial interactions between students with divergent backgrounds and interests, the reality is that meaningful interaction cannot be forced on autonomous adults??if people aren’t interested, it isn’t going to happen. In effect, it seems that randomization actually took away from students the very thing that it was trying to create—a sense of community. The essence of the housing system...