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Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...
...Nauert: You see the random kid in your section. You make that eye contact. We were wearing black hoods, specifically an action to draw attention to the torture and human rights abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. You can see through the material, you can see your friends, peers, but they don’t really see you. You’re put in a position where they’re responding to you precisely as the extracted essence of activism at the moment...
...immense sense of hope. We strive to show the interconnectivity of politics. It’s not just that we want to transform Harvard. We hope that human beings are being transformed. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is to focus on the kid who comes every week and to find hope in that. It gives me a lot of hope, not just for ending the war, but for democracy and world justice...
...remember sitting in my American history class in my junior year of high school—so the Iraq war had been happening for six months—and I remember being the only kid in my class who was so against that war and sitting there debating, and I was the only one there being like, ‘Oh my God, this thing is so awful...
...Wall, but it wasn't easy. As McCain approached Judaism's holiest site, a Rabbi in a Moses-like beard, all draped in flowing white robes - a publicity-seeker posing as soothsayer - called out: "Ladies and Gentlemen, John McCain, the next President of the United States." Meanwhile, a cheeky kid had wormed his way into the media mob, held up his camera-cellphone to McCain and yelled: "Say cheese...