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Hoffman was already 31 when he and Jerry Rubin formed an amalgam of political pranksters into the Youth International Party. "Yippies believe in the violation of every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up to that year's Democratic Convention in Chicago, they vowed to spike the local water supply with LSD. The schemes were mostly put-ons and fodder for the press, Hoffman's most faithful co-conspirator. It was revolution as street shtick...
WHEN I received my invitation to the annual "Champagne Brunch" early last week, I was excited about going. Really, I was Getting together with all my freshmen entrymates had a certain charm to it, a sense of recapturing my youth...
Afew months ago, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Ok.) introduced a bill that would establish a national program of voluntary service. The Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989, if enacted, would mobilize the nation's youth to help meet important national military and civilian needs, while at the same time promoting upward mobility through expansion of federal support for higher education, job training or housing for the program's volunteers...
...income or have lingering debts plaguing their future; the money they earn is up front and can pay for major portions of tuition costs at most colleges and universities. National service vouchers redress the regressive impact of current federal programs which allow only the most fortunate of low-income youth the opportunity to pursue their education...
...that many schools essentially have no sex education at all. Though that is mostly the result of sheer backwardness, some of the delay also stems from active opposition. Just as in the U.S., those against sex education have accused its proponents of conspiring to undermine the morals of youth...