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Brought up in the post-Watergate world of hard-hitting but shoddy investigative journalism, the youth of America are conditioned to say as little as possible to the media. If they do say anything, the media often twists it anyway. A cat that sits on a hot stove will never do so again, but it won't sit on a cold one either...
...They cut off telephones in the area so no lookout could call in a warning. Two armed officers loitered outside the suspect house until a teenager, described as a nephew of Escobar's, appeared at the door with lunch. The two swiftly slipped inside the front door with the youth, while four more police smashed through the carved-wood garage door. They entered shooting...
...those who abuse HIV victims. It may be harsh to say, but the fact that an individual may suffer as a result of doing what is right does not make doing so less of an imperative. Note also that while society suffers a tremendous loss of talent and youth and is stuck with a gargantuan bill, the first victims of nondisclosure are the loved ones of those already afflicted with HIV, even -- in the case of infected women -- their children...
Gutierrez also proposed a Youth Motivation Day, on which members would bring local Hispanic high school students to Harvard...
Wenner made a distinction between his youth andhis adulthood, saying that "the role of the youngis to challenge, and older people have anotherrole." He also claimed that the counterculture ofthe 1960s has "merged with the center" and that itis now "impossible for there to be acounterculture...