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...with Dove, whose qualifications are beyond dispute, even though she satisfies all the demands of political correctness. At 40 Dove is the youngest person, second woman (after Mona Van Duyn) and first African-American to be chosen as poet laureate since the position was created eight years ago. "She was the absolutely perfect choice," says Gwendolyn Brooks, the only other black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. "She can be brightly irreverent, carefully humorous and mercilessly inclusive. She has it in her to become a great poet...
Dukach, whose brother is the youngest tenured Harvard professor, is happy with Harvard's role in the community...
Chavis, at 45 the youngest person ever elected to lead the NAACP, focused on how the organization should proceed in the twentieth century in "continuing the struggle for freedom and justice...
Taught the game at the age of 5 by his father, Short quickly worked his way into the record books. At 12 he was the youngest player ever to qualify for the British championship, at 14 the world's youngest current international master, and at 19 the world's youngest grandmaster. All the while he struggled through school as the genius underachiever striving unsuccessfully to blend in with the guys. He went easy on the studies, grew his hair long and played bass guitar in a punk band called the Urge...
...until this year, I could take solace in the fact that I was still part of America's youngest generation. I could understand every new twist and turn of popular culture. I was a member of the generation that was the hippest, the baddest, the most in touch...