Word: johnson
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...year-olds, less than a third of whom voted in last year's presidential election. A generation ago, in 1972, 42% of this group went to the polls. But those were the days when young people still believed they could change the world. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson's poverty chief, Sargent Shriver, predicted the war on poverty would be won "in about 10 years." Today everyone knows better, and Gen X was molded during that learning process. "In the old days, politicians at least pretended to have principles," laments Beth Englander, 26, a former VISTA volunteer. "Now they...
Still, a little de-reg can go a long way, as it has for Peter Johnson, president and CEO of Agouron Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, Calif. Earlier this year the FDA, using a streamlined process specifically developed for life-threatening diseases like AIDS, gave a green light to Viracept, the firm's new anti-HIV drug...
...TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m.," Iyer notes, "the pleasure of these letters is that they have...
Harvard's distance medley team, composed of Lonergan, Johnson, freshman Darren Dinneen and Carswell turned in the most outstanding performance of the day as their team captured first place with a time of 9:46.51 and subsequently qualified for the NCAA Championships on March...
While the women finished a disappointing seventh place at Heps, rising freshman star Kristy Johnson made the All-Ivy Second team with her 45.80-meter toss in the hammer throw. Cornell and Princeton dominated almost all the events at Heps, and the Big Red eventually won the title by only a half a point over Princeton...