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...adversity, far from discouraging youths, has given them a harder, even ruthless edge. Most believe "I have to take what I can get in this world because no one is going to give me anything." And 71% of Gen Xers--a higher percentage than their parents or grandparents--believe "In this world, sometimes you have to compromise your principles." Do they identify more with success or integrity? More than half choose success; only a third of their elders select...
Voter participation is dropping in all age groups but in none so steeply as among 18-to-24-year-olds, less than a third of whom voted in last year's presidential election. A generation ago, in 1972, 42% of this group went to the polls. But those were the days when young people still believed they could change the world. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson's poverty chief, Sargent Shriver, predicted the war on poverty would be won "in about 10 years." Today everyone knows better, and Gen X was molded during that learning process. "In the old days...
...News and World Report announces that Harvard dropped to third in its annual rankings, giving up the first spot to Yale after six years...
...distressing if students were also exposed to more nontraditional ideologies or exhorted to critique the "great thinkers." For example, in many courses dealing with international relations, Harvard offers little critique of American patriotism or nationalism, and issues such as America's neo-imperialism and often brutal treatment of Third World nations are not even acknowledged. Many of these courses, with their slavish insistence on American righteousness and their presumptions of American exceptionalism, should probably be offered not in the government or history departments but instead as part of the Folklore and Mythology curriculum...
Wharton served as the first black chair and chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company, TIAA-CREF, from 1987 to 1993. In his six years leading the third-larges U.S. insurance company and the world's largest pension fund, Wharton was lauded as being "phenomenally successful at redirecting TIAA-CREF," Marcus Alexis, a Northwestern University professor of economics and management, told USA Today...