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...been achieved by the left wing of the students and faculty" does not stand up to scrutiny. Given that the Harvard Admissions Policy does not take political leanings into account, one would assume that the political bias of Harvard students is at least partially representative of educated American youth. The statement that "those who are conservative or moderate are few in number" therefore suggests that the author's term "leftist" encompasses an extraordinarily broad spectrum of political opinion. Furthermore, if the "conservative and moderate" students and faculty are unwilling to enter into political debate, their apathy can scarcely be blamed...
...stint as the best years of their lives. Given the smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York hostess would gleefully trade a year's worth of big-time parties to momentarily possess...
...used it for food. After a day of wandering, they crawled into the U.S. through a hole in the border fence. INS agents caught them, detained them overnight and deported them again. They sneaked back into the U.S. An elderly friend of the other youth let them sleep in his backyard in San Diego. Mario's father, meanwhile, borrowed $60 from friends, took a bus to the border and spent four days showing pictures of his son to people in the streets of Tijuana. Finally, a San Diego couple' who had seen Mario's photo...
...SOCIOLOGISTS LOOK to films in the year 200 to find out what high school life in America was like, chances are they'll be in for a big surprise. Sure, there are kids who still read Shakespeare and get turned on by multivariable calculus, but most of today's youth--or so modern filmmakers would have us believe--would rather sit around smoking pot and drinking beer than applying themselves to their studies...
...other distinctive feature of the Hart campaign is its youth-most of the top positions are filled by people in their late 20s. Some key staffers are even younger-the man who heads Hart's delegate selection effort is a junior at Yale, and the organization's computer expert is a 14-year-old American University sophomore...