Word: youthe
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City Year's working members see it as part of a tiny but potentially booming national youth service movement. The idea of a national youth service program has been bandied about for a long time and Brown and Khazei--roommates at the College and the Law School--both researched a national service bill while interning for members of Congress on Capital Hill. They and other proponents of national service now say that using a decentralized network of local groups like City Year might be the most practical way to realize their ideal...
...went to Harvard from 1959 to 1963. Let me make it clear to younger readers that almost nothing is more devastating than a childhood without playfulness, youth and young adulthood without dreams or romance without fantasy...
...suddenly, there is Mikhail and Raisa, a pair who can hold their own in the international journalistic sweepstakes vis-a-vis Ron and Nancy and, given the Gorbachevs' comparative youth (he is 57, she 56) and the Soviet political system, who will probably outlast George and Barbara or Mike and Kitty. The Western press trembles with anticipation...
...West Tampa, a gaggle of old-timers, organized as the West Tampa Political Group, meet every morning at 8:30, as they have for nearly 60 years, to discuss local politics and catch up on the gossip. Many of the group's members worked as cigar makers in their youth, then moved on to other jobs as the industry declined. Retired plumbers, electricians, dentists, tailors, lawyers, teachers and bakers now fill the group's ranks...
...sideshow to the "real" campaign between the Massachusetts Governor and George Bush. As Jackson scurries around California, he gives the appearance of a candidate who has rhyme but not reason to keep going. He flits from issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents...