Word: youthe
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American troops, shaken by the death of another one of their own when a vehicle hit a land mine, are more than ready to leave. Fallout continues from an incident five weeks ago: Gunnery Sergeant Harry Conde, infuriated when his prescription sunglasses were stripped off by a Somali youth, shot the boy in the abdomen. A military court is now considering whether he used "excessive force...
...Perot in large numbers again. Today's younger generation (Wilhelm seemed in blissful ignorance of the Alexander Star article in The New Republic that pointed out that there really is no such thing) is looking to its future, economically insecure and politically alienated, said Wilhelm. He actually said that youth were the most economically insecure group. Kind of makes you wonder about all those wonderfully secure poor people, doesn...
...that national service wouldn't displace any existing jobs. Someone else asked who was going to pay those 200,000 salaries if they didn't displace current jobs. Furthermore, the reporter continued, weren't establishing a huge national service project and fixing the economy (another big issue for youth, according to Wilhelm) slightly incompatible goals...
...speech about the importance of "long term investment in our nation's youth." What we need to do is get our priorities straight. The cynical college reporters agreed that priorities were important but still wanted to know who was going to pay for them. Cue for the big speech about "250 cuts in the budget proposal over the next five years." Cuts in farm subsidies and federal overhead. And, of course, "revenue increases...
Most of the Balkan nationalities have a history of marrying politics with violence. It was the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo by a Serbian youth that set off World War I. And according to a French expert on the Balkans, Xavier Raufer, the terrorist techniques that the Palestinians and the Lebanese made notorious in the past two decades -- bombings, kidnappings, hijackings -- were virtually invented by Balkan groups. "These guys make Abu Nidal look like Mother Teresa," he says...