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...seems to me the fact that voter turnout is usually extremely low, especially amongst the younger voter, should be considered a problem. Until the youth vote becomes more of a significant factor, politicians will continue to neglect the issues that are most important to us. To “fervently hope” that younger voters will “continue to be simply too lazy to show up at the polls” is not only ridiculous, but also borders on the unconstitutional. To imply that the country would “loose...
...will sit amongst 8-12 year-old girls and painfully awkward older men who, surprisingly, come alone. Yes, her group of friends includes a sassy black girl, a goofy white guy, and an ambiguously ethnic love interest. But Hilary Duff, star of Raise Your Voice, surprisingly sheds her Teen Disney roots, giving an uneven yet charming performance as Terri Fletcher, small-town girl whisked away from commonplace and complacency when she lands admission to the prestigious Bristol Hill School of Music in L.A. You’ve undoubtedly seen Raise Your Voice before: this film is formula-driven, from typical...
...Amongst the 21 tracks by Sandler are a host of collaborations with celebrity comedians, including Saturday Night Live veterans David Spade, Molly Shannon and Rob Schneider. Topics covered in these jokes vary from what has become the ordinary for Sandler—innumerable jokes centered around potty humor—to the extraordinary, including the ins and outs of what you never knew it means to be a “Best Friend” on the track entitled as such. Intermingling with such innocuous lyrics like “Best friends tell you when you?...
...Wednesday night—whether crowded in front of the big screen of a house common room or scattered amongst the swarming sea of wicked drunk revelers rolling through Kenmore Square—Harvard students lost themselves in the high...
Last winter, as an active member of the Harvard College Greens, I was presented with an exciting opportunity: four candidates vying for the Green Party’s presidential nomination were interested in taking part in what was to become the first debate amongst Green Presidential candidates in American history. Naive as I was, I presumed that such an event would mesh perfectly with the mission of the Institute of Politics (IOP), namely, “engag[ing] young people, particularly undergraduates, in politics and public service.” It didn’t take long...