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...both his mother and his younger brother. To deal with his unhappiness, Lucky turned first to food and ballooned to 160 lbs. in the fifth and sixth grades. At 13, he substituted drugs. Eventually, he turned to theft and street violence. "I've broken all my knuckles," says the youth, now 16. "I get into blank rages where I don't even remember what happened...
Liberation movements turned political parties in South Africa typically instigate public demonstrations against the apartheid regime and raise their flags above the demonstration and shout their party's slogans. In doing so, they use the grievances of disgruntled groups--such as the township youth who feel they are not being educated, the trade unionists who feel that wages are too low, and the unemployed who are frustrated by a lack of jobs--and make it seem as though these were people marching in support of their party...
With such campus nightmares splashed across the front pages and the network news, the myth that universities are safe havens for the nation's youth is rapidly disappearing. The need has never been greater for the bill currently pending before Congress to force colleges to publish statistics on campus crime...
Ironically, this most common fear of the unified Germany is the least justified. After 45 years of hyper-sensitivity to their past, German citizens and German public life are exceedingly sensitive to suggestions of racism and militarism. Fully a quarter of German youth refuse conscription into the military, opting instead for more lengthy and arduous conscientious-objector duty...
...romantic lines of my youth," sighs a middle-aged Moscow housewife. "We would line up at Sokolniki Park to see the first American exhibition, where Khrushchev debated Nixon. Or at the Pushkin Museum to see paintings by Fernand Leger. What wonderful times we had! Not like in these horrible lines today...