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Much of the drama in the book stems from the tensions generated when a ) sensitive grown-up finds himself living in a fantasy of his youth. Naipaul passionately annotates the splendors he observes surrounding the manor cottage: "The beauty of the place, the great love I had grown to feel for it, greater than for any other place I had known." Mixed with this euphoria, though, are some troubling recognitions. The writer cannot forget that he is an "alien" in this paradise, racially distinct, a former colonial subject of the power and wealth that made such a place possible: "Fifty...
...proceeds from the marathon, which chairman Jon D. Firester '87 expects to total around $15,000, will go towards funding five local community services: the Academy Homes Summer Youth Enrichment Programs, the Cambridge School Museum Program, the Earthen Vessels Afterschool Program, the Jefferson Park Drop-in and Writing Centers, the Mission Hill Afterschool Program and the Inner-City Outreach Program...
...House, along with many conservatives and libertarians as well as liberals, opposes national service on the ground that it would be an unnecessary intervention by the Government into people's lives. Some wonder how a program could be enforced. "What are you going to have?" asks Alan Weisberg, a youth-employment consultant in Oakland. "Criminal penalties for those who don't work...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police...
...among the few ways students have to make their voices heard. Says Kim Young Sam, a South Korean opposition leader: "If politics were functioning properly, there would be no need for the students to take to the streets." Observes a Peking graduate student: "There are inherent affinities among youth in various countries -- idealism, impatience and untempered courage. Chinese students thought that those traits could be channeled to promote changes...