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...thug life is a thing of the past, Espinoza says. He has traded in his gang colors for the red and black of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, for which he works as a youth organizer in a rough neighborhood in Ciudad Sandino...
...brass. But in Shostakovich, they must be part of a shrill, totalitarian attack on the senses. The energy isn't there - after a delayed charter flight from Caracas, everyone is on three hours' sleep. Worse, these are teenagers on three hours' sleep. Dudamel is conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, the showcase of a 200,000-strong Venezuelan youth system from which he emerged. Three-quarters of the musicians - aged 12 to 26 - live below the poverty line. He has been their music director since he was 17. When the relationship works, the orchestra feels for its conductor an uncomplicated...
...Polish Families - to join the government in exchange for Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head of an ultraright nationalist youth group with a reputation for anti-Semitism and homophobia, was anointed Education Minister...
...Being long past my youth, I can't say if this is sociologically accurate. But males and females not charming and testing one another by talking - that's a big change from the best old movies...
Determined to show Vietnam's tech-savvy youth a suave and forward-looking image of the ruling Communist Party, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has shown remarkable enthusiasm for the Internet. In June, his government set up an online form through which corrupt officials could be reported. In February, the Prime Minister had reached out personally through an online chat viewed by at least 1 million people, during which he answered carefully screened questions ranging from government control of media (necessary, he said, to protect the nation) to personal career tips. To one youth who asked how he, too, could...