Word: disconnecter
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...This is consistent with a growing and continuing disconnect between the people and democratic politics and process," said Marvin Kalb, co-director of the Vanishing Voter project, in a press release...
...more so than Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (8). It's the only song from the past 30 years, and considering the chronological proximity of the selections, one wonders if it doesn't reflect a token vote from a panel with an apparent generational disconnect from post-'60s genres. Maybe it'll take a few years to see the likes of Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Prince, Andy Partridge, Steve Earle, John Hiatt, Kurt Cobain and Bruce Springsteen, not to mention...
...program's success is not surprising, especially considering the results of a new survey conducted for the Nickelodeon channel and TIME. What emerges from the poll of 991 kids, ages 9 to 14, plus 400 parents and 103 middle school teachers, is a noteworthy disconnect in many families over parental involvement in their children's education. While 92% of the parents said they are very interested in their kids' schoolwork, the number falls to 75% when kids were asked if this is true of their parents. Similarly, 77% of parents said they help the kids with homework to help them...
...says "a disconnect" exists in Cambridge, where residents are largely unaware of the benefits that Harvard provides to the community...
...This disconnect can be costly, as the last week has proved. When police finally bust into some suburban home or college dorm somewhere in the world and haul out some terrified teenagers--or former teenagers--in front of a horde of reporters, you can bet we won't be seeing any modern-day John Dillingers. More likely we'll see some gifted, alienated kids--powerless in their real adolescent lives--who couldn't resist the temptation to use technology to make themselves, even briefly, more powerful than they had ever imagined...