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...68er himself, told Time. "But to whom?" Germany's younger leaders are distancing themselves in style and substance from the generation they plan to replace. The issues that animated those born during or soon after the war - from opposition to nuclear weapons to support for gay rights - fail to excite younger voters, preoccupied by a completely different set of challenges. Anxiety about the economy, about work and pensions, has replaced a desire to change the world. "People don't have to go the barricades any more: they just need a job," says Walter Lindner, a Fischer aide. It's three...
...party. After the festivities, there came a time to reflect, and I came to an uncomfortable conclusion: I am closer to that period in life when my energy and powers will diminish and I will lose my independence. At age 60, the organs of the body gradually begin to fail and the first hints of age-related disease begin to appear...
...school such as Harvard, however, where a vast majority of students are capable, in terms of raw measures, of A-level work, grades based on merit alone fail to distinguish most students. But ironically, these ubiquitous A grades hardly communicate even raw performance, much like a perfect score on an intelligence test cannot accurately measure intelligence for failure to challenge the test taker...
...what does this unabashedly cornball movie have to offer to jaded college students, particularly those for whom sincerity is an eighth sin? After all, the laughs frequently come from cheap one-liners and even cheaper puns that fail to be redeemed by their tongue-in-cheek delivery...
...Turnbull said that the companies of Hurst and Vernon fail to recognize the improvement the current legislation has made on the industry...