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FARAI CHIDEYA, 27, comes to TIME by way of MTV News and CNN, where she has become one of America's youngest and best-known talking heads, doing Generation X political analysis for Generation X viewers. A graduate of Harvard and a former reporter at Newsweek, Chideya hates the Gen X label but is resigned to using it "with a smirk in my voice." For this week's cover package, she tries to explain her generation's seeming lack of interest in current events. "It's not as if there's no base of knowledge," she says of her peers...
...first-year students in Penny-packer Hall said they received sexually-harassing phone calls earlier this week from a man who claimed he was conducting a Newsweek poll...
...spokesperson for Newsweek said that the magazine was not currently conducting polls of college students on sports, reading material or clothing...
...other student said he received a similar call from a caller also posing as a Newsweek pollster...
...asked what I was wearing. When I gave a very general description, he asked for specific details, like what type of shoes and the color of my shirt. At this point, I definitely realized that this person was not from Newsweek," the student said...