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...India in search of a better life. Avishek and Soma plan to do something more radical. They will vote in the national elections - which began April 16 and are staggered over five weeks - in a conscious effort to hold their government accountable. The Chakrabortys are part of India's youth vote, a demographic that is too large for any political party to ignore. Of India's 1 billion citizens, 40% are under 18; 70% are under 35. In the cities, voting rates among younger citizens are as many as 20 points lower than they are in rural areas, but growing...
...hooked up to Turner Classic Movies, which turned 15 years old in April, a few friends issued this promise or warning: "It will change your life." Like me, they were FOOFs - friends of old films - and in the late '90s, the repertory cinemas of our New York youth, the oldies houses, had pretty much vanished. There were exceptions: one could see many artifacts of Hollywood's golden age on videocassette, the eight-track of its day. And the commercial-free American Movie Classics channel was still showing Paramount and Universal goodies from the '30s and '40s; it also staged annual...
...Worst of all is the stigma associated with being an “illegal alien.” Nick S. Lopez ’10 describes the bittersweet experience of getting into Harvard as an unauthorized youth. “Getting into Harvard wasn’t the happy ending to my story that it should have been. All of these years I’ve felt like a liar because I haven’t been able to tell my friends about my immigration status, either out of fear or embarrassment. There is a stigma associated with being...
...Harvard to feign support through organizations that are currently doing nothing for the DREAM Act is not only dishonest, but it is also an insult to the unauthorized youth that Harvard has chosen to educate. To educate youth without fighting for their right to exist in the only country they know as their home is disgraceful. Our fellow students are living every day on this campus in fear, and the DREAM Act is the only chance they have at freedom. Before the end of this semester, President Drew Faust should voice public support for the DREAM Act and pledge...
...that the President will pick a woman. George W. Bush replaced one of the court's two women, Sandra Day O'Connor with a man, Justice Samuel Alito, after Bush's legal counsel, Harriet Miers, withdrew under attack from the right. The other near-absolute requirement will be relative youth, as Obama and the Democrats will want to ensure a left-of-center voice for decades to come on a court featuring two relatively young conservative justices, Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. (See pictures of John Roberts...