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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After you get your photo taken, an employee of the University will likely hand you a lanyard on which you can put your ID and room key. Don’t do this. It’s important not to lose these items, but at the ripe age of 18, one should be able to do so without the help of a collar...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Week: Accepting Your Awkwardness | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...soon reverted to the traditional practices of top-down leadership and relying on personal connections and patronage to run the country. That approach may work with the older generation, but it's left many youths frustrated. More than 70% of the country's 33 million people are under the age of 30, and estimates of registered voters ages 18 to 25 range from 8 million to 10 million, out of a total of 17 million. While today's young Afghans have experienced the ravages of war, they have also witnessed - as refugees or through TV and the Internet - an alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Election: The Generational Divide | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...Search of Honest Work Esmatullah Kosar is someone who very much wants to be judged on his merits. A slight, shy 24-year-old, Kosar has just returned from three years of studying in a Bangalore university, on a scholarship from the Indian government. At age 2, Kosar lost his father in the war against the Soviets. His mother, a member of the Hazara ethnic group heavily persecuted by the Taliban regime, saw her sons' education as the family's ticket out of desperation. Kosar thought his fluent English and new bachelor's degree in human resources and management would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Election: The Generational Divide | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...Jung, who died on Aug. 18 of heart failure in Seoul at age 85, was not the father of democracy in South Korea, but he was its consolidator. Throughout the era when South Korea was effectively ruled by the military, Kim was its most active and prominent dissident. He came within 1 million votes of upsetting then President Park Chung Hee in an election in 1971, after which Park amended the constitution and turned South Korea into a one-party police state. In 1973 government agents - with Park's assent - kidnapped and apparently planned to kill Kim. The U.S. government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former South Korean President Dies at 85 | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...places students in Diet internships. Fumio Kyuma, former defense minister and LDP representative of Nagasaki-prefecture, has recently made the rounds in order to secure a 10th term now that he's up against 28-year-old female DPJ candidate Eriko Fukuda. Fukuda not only represents the DPJ in age (on average, DPJ members are younger than LDP members), she also literally embodies opposition to LDP oversight. Fukuda is one of many Japanese infected with hepatitis C by tainted blood products that were distributed between the 1970s and early 1990s, a case for which the ruling coalition accepted responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Twitter-Free Election Campaign | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

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