Word: americaã
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...young intelligencia—had taught its youth to value radical action over respect for democracy. But American kids wouldn’t dream of pursuing serious political objectives through violence. After all, I thought, while the Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America??s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals” in the U.S. were protesting the Vietnam War on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and embracing free love in Golden Gate State Park...
...Weathermen—or the Weather Underground, as they were later known—were, as my intoxicated adversaries explained to me, America??s own Montoneros. They had abandoned passivity in favor of concrete action in the late 1960s and 1970s, bombing public buildings across the country, including the U.S. Capitol. They had made the leap that my fellow American anti-Bushies and I are too meek to even consider. U.S. history isn’t devoid of examples of radical resistance, they said. We simply choose to ignore them...
Sopen B. Shah ’08, runner-up in the America??s Junior Miss 2004 competition, agreed that some Harvard students get the wrong idea when they hear about her participation in the contest...
...months and $54,000 later, Ali was named the 2007 America??s Junior Miss, the winner of a national scholarship competition based on an interview, academics, fitness, self-expression and talent, according to the Junior Miss Web site...
While everything seems to have fallen her way in the last few months, the 50th America??s Junior Miss does have some worries about her immediate future...