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...rookie quarterback, and it would have taken a perfect game from an experienced signal caller to combat a ferocious Crimson defense. “We knew if we were able to stop Penn’s running game and force them into a passing game with a younger quarterback that would give us an advantage,” senior linebacker Bobby Everett said...
...you’d asked me that when I was much younger, I would have said, ‘Oh, no! That man who goes around laughing at his own stories and hee-hawing over them?’ I wouldn’t have wanted anything to do with him,” Donald said. “But young people are often intolerant, and I was too. His sense of humor, which I found objectionable as a youth, is actually very funny indeed…. So yes, I think I would have become a Lincoln...
...candidates could also have done a better job in reaching out to younger voters. One important reason for youth to vote is so that politicians tailor their policies to youth, but those who would run the country should have the same interest states do in energizing the electorate. After a few exciting noises about higher education issues earlier in the campaign, youth issues drifted off the national radar screen entirely. If candidates talked more about the investments in the future that really matter to younger voters, they themselves would be investing in the strength of American democracy as it rolls...
...point that every man, woman and child in America owes $25,000, Bush has not established a shred of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility. His misguided approach to reforming social security is likely to add to the deficit and place an even greater burden on the younger generation who will have...
...likes of V.S. Naipaul and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--foreignness has itself been a driving theme. The classic Desai figure is the title character of her most propulsive novel, 1988's Baumgartner's Bombay, an old-style German long settled in India who comes into fatal contact with a younger German of the mobile, backpacking generation. Nowadays, when millions are living in places not fully their own, foreignness is nothing to write home about. The characters in Ali's and Lahiri's fiction might be the daughters, even the granddaughters, of Desai, faced not with a split between cultures but with...