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...still holds true today, only 34% of respondents under 25 said they had any interest at all in political affairs. That is down from 57% of the same age group in the early 1990s. Says Hensel, the author from East Berlin: "With Fischer, for example, you knew what he stood for. With these new politicians, they don't stand for anything." Standing for nothing may suit the mood of a Germany that wants to concentrate on pocketbook issues rather than big ideas. But ideas, passion, fervor have a habit of unexpectedly coming back to life. In 1968, the country...
...ossified cultures into creative ones. The politics of liberation transformed personal lives. In Germany especially, the young's impatience with the complicit evasions of their elders enabled a nation to face up to its past with a rare honesty. Even at the time, not all '60s beliefs and behavior stood up to examination. Some sacred texts were junk. (Have you tried to read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth lately? Don't.) And when, in Germany and Italy, the street politics of the 1960s gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade...
After traveling to Paris, Hong Kong, and Cameroon, Africa through Harvard’s study abroad programs, Andrea M. Mayrose ’06 stood outside the Science Center tent yesterday, promoting the third annual Harvard College Study Abroad and International Experience Fair...
...think the URL will make all the difference,” said Daphne P. Maramaldi, the URL project manager who stood by a projector screen displaying the new site. “Now students can go to one place and find funds that will support them...
...Summers faced a storm of criticism following his remarks on women in science early this year, New stood by his side—literally. She accompanied her embattled boyfriend as he exited two contentious faculty meetings in February...