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...test of national character or moral courage. Every athlete has a stirring personal story or a dramatic comeback tale or at the very least a recent death in the family. NBC's latest contribution to the patriotic gush is a series of celebratory music videos -- among them, Marc Cohn warbling about swimming champ Pablo Morales, and D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince getting all rapped up in the Dream Team...
...National politics, for my generation, has become irrelevant," wrote 22-year-old political writer Jonathan S. Cohn '91 in Newsweek. Cohn, a former Crimson president, wrote that young people may be more likely to get involved if a candidate expressly seeks their support...
...challenge for the Clinton campaign is to get the students who are now just talking to begin campaigning and voting. And many would say that American democracy, which depends on citizen involvement for its vitality, faces a similar challenge. As Cohn says, "getting young people involved in politics isn't only good for the Democratic party, it's good for America...
...people in the generation now coming of age have no memory of a time when politics was considered a noble endeavor and the men and women who practiced it were revered as pure heroes. "For a lot of people my age, their first political memory is Watergate," says Jonathan Cohn, a 22- year-old assistant editor at the American Prospect, a liberal quarterly. "That's not exactly a great foot to get started off on, where your President is a crook and the government is corrupt...
...survey of 1,006 youths by People for the American Way, only 12% rated voting as a basic tenet of good citizenship. "There's a whole generation of people growing up who should be our future leaders but who are very disaffected, and that's scary," says Cohn...