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...standard," she says with a laugh, sitting in her central Madrid living room as her two middle ones, Jacobo, 9, and Gracita, 7, carry in a plate of home-baked cookies. "People at work say, 'There's no way you have four kids!' " Her half-day job as a youth counselor allows her to drop off the kids at school and pick them up, and she recently turned down a chance to become a partner in a start-up company. "I could earn more money but not see my kids as much," says the elegant and easygoing 42 year...
...optimistic sense of duty and country in young Americans like ourselves. Meanwhile, McCain has mused of regiments of uniformed young charity workers living in barracks, a return to the days of the Civilian Community Corps . But it’s hard to see how pressuring or coercing our youth for months or years will make them love their fellow Americans—meaning more likely their government...
...current obsession with “youth involvement” is very nice, but it already looks to have gone too far. We can’t send every problem to Washington to solve, and we can’t all become political pundits or state employees—even the idea is reckless and blinkered. Decry aspiring investment bankers all you like, but someone has to make the money that Washington spends. The wonderful part of America, or what America should be, is the ability of a person to ignore politicians and politics as much as possible. Love your...
...wrote his senior thesis on governmental reform and volunteered for the Phillips Brooks House Association. During his senior year, his teaching fellow in a Spanish class put him in touch with a school on Manhattan’s lower east side, which catered to at-risk Latino youth. After graduation, he worked there for two years before returning to Boston and continuing his role as an educator there...
There was no surprise, Sunday, when Cuba's parliament elected Raul Castro, 76, to succeed his ailing, 81-year-old brother, Fidel, as President. But pundits who had expected an infusion of youth into Cuba's Paleolithic hierarchy were roundly disappointed. The six vice presidential posts, for example, were taken by a group of men whose average age is 70 - including 77-year-old, hard-line communist ideologue Jose Ramon Machado as First Vice President...