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...Maybe it’s not quite right / But we’ll find out if it’s true”). Clocking in at just over two and a half minutes, the tune captures Yo La Tengo at their best and briefest.This is not to say they’ve forgotten how to write longer jams, although in a mysterious lapse in judgment they pack the three longest songs in a row at the album’s end. These songs comprise a prodigious 37 minutes (longer than a few of their early LPs), and only...
...would argue that now is exactly the time where we need more volunteerism, not only because needs are greater, more people are hungry, more people are out of work, more people are falling through the cracks, but when I talk to young people, for example, I say to them now is the time to get experience - since you may not be able to find a job right away - get some experience doing some good for your country, and that will not only be in the interest of the people you help, but it's going to be in your self...
...things that our poll showed also, and also the National Conference on Citizenship poll about service showed this, too, is that people feel like their neighbors are actually less involved in the community than they used to be; that people are hunkering down, as you say, they're looking out for their own. How do you make the argument in that kind of environment to people who are saying, like, hey, I've lost my job and you're telling me to volunteer? How does that work? Does it make it a lot more difficult? Mrs. Obama: As the President...
...fact, in the poll - speaking of millennials - about a third of Americans - you know, I have to think of some interesting names for them - "the Responsibles" basically say that they've changed their lives and they've made essentially a kind of new social contract. They're buying things that are greener; they're buying things that have a sense of social responsibility. And this group is about 70 or 80 million Americans. They're younger, they're better educated, they're more diverse...
...Obama: Which we say every day. (Laughter...