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Kupchan said it would be critical to address the attitudes of younger generations to repair the countries’ relationships. In earlier years, he said, people grew up viewing the alliance as indispensable, which is no longer the case...
...That’s not something one can take for granted anymore,” Kupchan said. “We need to invest in the mentalities and attitudes of younger Americans and Europeans...
...patterns, that may just be an indication that the group has changed a great deal. Since the arrest of most of ETA's top tier in a series of joint counterterrorist operations by France and Spain over the past decade, control may have passed to a generation of younger leaders who may be radical--or just plain inexperienced--enough to commit an atrocity like last week's train attacks in Madrid. A report on trends in terrorism published in December 2002 by the Council of the European Union, the E.U.'s ministerial-level policymaking body, cites the alarming rise within...
...older group of female professionals who came of age listening to Helen Reddy roar, the exodus of younger women can seem disturbingly regressive. Fay Clayton, 58, a partner in a small Chicago law firm, watched in dismay as her 15-person firm lost three younger women who left after having kids, though one has since returned part time. "I fear there is a generational split and possibly a step backwards for younger women," she says...
Others take a more optimistic view. "Younger women have greater expectations about the work-life balance," says Joanne Brundage, 51, founder and executive director of Mothers & More, a mothers' support organization with 7,500 members and 180 chapters in the U.S. While boomer moms have been reluctant to talk about their children at work for fear that "people won't think you're a professional," she observes, younger women "feel more entitled to ask for changes and advocate for themselves." That sense of confidence is reflected in the evolution of her organization's name. When Brundage founded it in Elmhurst...