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...Meadows' lingering camera shots over the local school playground filled with different gangs - Mods, Rockers, New Romantics - gives an anthropological feel to his study, almost like watching a National Geographic documentary on British youth tribalism. But it's clear where Meadows' own working-class allegiance lies: following Woody's skins strutting through alleyways, apropos of Reservoir Dogs, in drainpipe jeans, checkered shirts and Doc Marten boots...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, a judo champion in his youth, is now building up his political muscles. He flexed them ostentatiously in his annual address to Russia's Federal Assembly on April 26, grabbing headlines with his threat to reconsider his country's adhesion to the treaty on conventional forces in Europe. Signed by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, the treaty committed the U.S.S.R, and later the Russian Federation, to reducing its military deployment in its European territories. Given that this deal was one of the landmark indications that the cold war was over, why would Putin want to provoke...
...tweed is coming off. Increasingly, America’s conservative youth are shedding their stiff reputations for a new sort of rabble-rousing. Particularly, the image of social conservatism is shifting. The best example of this phenomenon is, not surprisingly, in the area of sexual politics. The success of the socially liberal agenda, in the form of increased openness about sexual matters, has caused the tables of tradition to turn...
...used to play it non-stop,” Collins says, laughing. Since then, his creative juices haven’t stopped flowing, finding outlets in every shape, size, and color. Growing up in New York, Collins continued percussion lessons at Julliard, playing with the New York Youth Symphony as well as a rock band. When the group got serious, he decided to defer coming to Harvard for a year in order to record an album with the band and tour around the Northeast. Although he was already musically involved in high school, this gap year was largely responsible...
...another well-known Harvard alumnus, Adams did not always make it his goal to come here. “Neither of my parents graduated from college,” Adams recalls. “[College] came up as just sort of a wish.”In his youth, Adams took up the clarinet. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, he had already mastered the instrument. “It’s a well-kept secret, but the clarinet is a rather easy instrument to master,” Adams adds humbly. Feeling that there was little...