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...converts, military services recruiting soldiers, moviemakers looking for viewers and magazines for readers: hardly a sliver of society is exempt from the need to understand and, indeed, cater to this generation. Yet Gen X has proved irritatingly contrarian. "The soul of Gen X is amorphous, intangible, elusive," says Richard Thau, 32, who heads the civic group Third Millennium. "That's why I like the term X: fill in the blanks...
...Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with one instance of government malfeasance and ineptitude after another, from Watergate to Iran-contra to the explosion of the Challenger to Whitewater. We believe government can't be trusted to do anything right...
According to police reports and student observations, Sinedu Tadesse '96 killed herself and roommate Trang Phuong Ho '96. Tadesse also stabbed Ho's friend, Thau Nguyen, who was visiting at the time...
...Thau dismisses such criticism as ill-informed. "We're totally about a grassroots effort," he says...
...Thau argues that the membership of groups like Third Millenium is not limited to those who oppose the political system...