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...stride into a world weighing bigger issues than beaches and bars. Sheryl Crow makes it quite clear where she’s striding from the get-go with her new studio album “Detours,” which bills itself as the work of a contemplative and reborn artist engaging in a weighty wrestling match with concerns ranging from the White House to a bout with breast cancer to a broken engagement with cycling star Lance Armstrong. The political material comes first, and it comes strong. The album’s first and shortest track...
...Suharto was not forgotten for another reason: the attempts at political reform since he left power have not produced a tangible improvement in the daily lives of Indonesians. Corruption, cronyism, a lack of transparency and accountability - they are all still around. Indonesia has been reborn as a young democracy, but because Suharto did not establish durable civic institutions, that democracy is messy enough for many Indonesians to pine for his old New Order...
...great educator John Dewey once wrote that "democracy needs to be reborn in every generation." The problem was that between 1972, when 18-year-olds first got the right to vote, and 2000, youth voting decreased in each election cycle. But there are signs that that dispiriting trend is shifting. Youth participation increased in 2004, and this year there seems to be a youthquake. Young people sense that they are coming of age at a time when leadership?and their role in choosing it?really matters...
...responsibilities is to help make sure that democracy is reborn in every generation. TIME is the fourth most read consumer magazine among college students (behind Cosmopolitan, PEOPLE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), according to the Student Monitor, and TIME.com has a greater proportion of 18-to-34-year-olds in its audience than any of its major news competitors except Yahoo! News and Google News. And don't forget the nearly 4 million children, from kindergarten through seventh grade, who read TIME FOR KIDS. May they all become informed, engaged citizens...
...Romney campaign, humbled by recent defeats, now hopes to rebrand his insider strategy as an outsider one. As the candidate soldiers on to the 21 states that will vote on February 5, the campaign holds out hope that the old coalition can be reborn anew. "We feel as though the conservatives are beginning to rally around Mitt," said Ann Romney, after her husband delivered an upbeat concession speech Tuesday night, in a downtown St. Petersburg theater...