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...claim to the center ground. Liberal Democrats spent much of their own September conference, in the south-coast resort of Brighton, locked in private debates about whether they would fare better with a younger, more charismatic man at the helm (LibDem leader Sir Menzies "Ming" Campbell is 66). Yet youth and charisma have not enabled Tory leader David Cameron, 41, to unite his fractious party. Traditionalists are outraged by his efforts to rebrand the Conservatives as a more caring, green-tinged party. The Tory conference, which starts on Sept. 30 in Blackpool, a resort in northern England, promises the internecine...
...saga of Michael Vick this summer was just that. Columnists opined on the atrocity, evoking emotion by bringing up the impressionable youth. Talking heads on radio and TV chest-bumped and high-fived each other, delighting their audiences with thundering hyperbole and really old—but still funny—prison jokes. Even serious news outlets like CNN jumped into the fray. The bloodthirsty public watched, and loved...
...case is apparent or real, it serves to reflect on larger injustices that occur across the nation. The American justice system tends to impison black men at disproportionately high rates. Black people are six times more likely than white people to go to jail. Between 2002 and 2004, black youth constituted 58 percent of minors in adult prison...
...men’s and women’s cross country teams trotted out the youth once again at the Iona Meet of Champions on Saturday, with each team racing five freshmen. The youngsters held their ground just fine, placing 10th out of 19 teams on the women’s side and 11th among 19 men’s squads. On the women’s side, the large field of 206 runners encouraged a conservative start for the young Crimson athletes, but all the runners finished strong. The team was paced by freshman Cara Sprague, who finished 47th...
...although some official studies do show immigrants committing a disproportionate share of serious infractions, the picture painted by the statistics is far from clear. But that won't stop SVP's effort to make political hay out of the immigrant-crime issue, particularly the recent dramatic rise in youth violence...