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After learning that 40 percent of Nepal’s guerilla fighters were women, Deol—then an English concentrator in Mather House—decided to write a novella about a young girl fighting in the civil war for her thesis requirement...
...Alan Khazei has decent field operations, but they’re among young people and don’t penetrate far outside the Boston area,” King said...
We’re certainly at a historical fork in the road, but we need not choose between vitality and security. In the eyes of this young writer, America will be dynamic so long as we hope for a better tomorrow. We will be vibrant so long as we provide pathways to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for as many as possible and not just for a few. We will be youthful so long as we keep the dream alive. And we will be all the more vital if we pass reform...
Perhaps worst of all, the “vitality vs. security” argument masks a certain, purposeful interdependence in America, especially between generations. Democracy works on the premise that the social contract spans eras. Today’s young provide some protection for those who sacrificed in the past, and today’s elderly maintain a duty of active stewardship for those who will come in the future. There are live wires between us, and to describe the American contract of caring for citizens of other generations as a mere siphoning process, as Brooks does, is to cheapen...
...said the American slit her roommate's throat on the night of Nov. 1, 2007, driven by sexual desire and alpha-female competitiveness. Asking for a life sentence with nine months' isolation, Mignini said "La Knox" wanted a sex "game" and used her feminine wiles to manipulate two besotted young men - one of whom is already convicted, the other on trial with her - into restraining Kercher while she plunged a kitchen knife into her neck...