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...from him. His very expression is off-putting. I'm 80 years old, not a profane person and quite benign in my declining years. But when I opened my copy of the magazine and saw that low-angle shot of Putin, I impulsively shouted a curse, like an uncouth youth. Andrew Halmay, Toronto...
...Ignatius wrote in "A Tsar is Born" that "No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's." But I noticed that the class photo accompanying the story showed Putin as a youth of 14 with eyes devoid of emotion. Putin may not have been born with an emotionless stare, but he certainly developed it early. Audrey Thomas, Tottenham, Canada...
...extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don't mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock in the 1960s and '70s, are suddenly cool again. Some of the new fans are baby boomers nostalgic for their youth. But to the surprise and delight of music executives, increasing numbers of the iPod generation are also purchasing turntables (or dusting off Dad's), buying long-playing vinyl records and giving them a spin...
...It’s not that young Americans don’t take interest in current issues or hold opinions; on the contrary, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, youth tend to be both less satisfied with the status quo and more optimistic about the future than adults. When we do vote, we tend to value individual freedoms over institutional stability (think, for example, of the debate over music censorship). Yet when it comes to political participation, whether it’s at the polls or through protests, we are shockingly passive. Gone is the daring sense...
...Partisan politics aside, we citizens of the USA do commonly value freedom and democracy. I look to 2008 and hope that our next government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people—and that includes of, by, and for America’s youth. So go out, and cast your ballot—in the name of liberty, and for every disenfranchised young person in the world who would die for the opportunity to do so him or herself...