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...fading future of Italy's young" [April 10]: My compliments on a well-written article. I can say with conviction that Guia Soncini, the columnist for a women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are comfortable with how things are." As a Filipino immigrant in Rome, I can only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house...
...Mets fan at Fenway, I think of Bill Buckner on the 20th anniversary of the ’86 series,” Balkema said. In the parents’ section, the mothers, fathers, and grandparents of the Crimson players both expressed pride and told stories of youths spent in and around Fenway. For Jim Byrne, father of injured second baseman Brendan Byrne, the park brought back memories of his father, a policeman who used to bring young Jim Byrne to the park when he was on duty during games. In those days, Byrne remembered, the park routinely had only...
...Last summer he even piloted a work contract, designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals or severance costs. That's remarkably similar to the law Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin championed to stimulate youth employment by making young workers easier to dismiss - and look how that ended up. But as Villepin's proposal was shelved earlier this month, an independent agency monitoring the Borloo-sponsored measure reported it had generated over 400,000 new jobs since September. Great results - but they were not enough...
...bard goesballistic in Baz Luhrmann's churning, MTV-ish take on the classic love-and-death story. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, respectively 21 and 16 when they filmed it in 1996, bring youth's melancholy fever to the fable. Luhrmann might be chided for pandering to the youth market, but forget that. His fireworks and camerabatics are an apt and bracing visual equivalent to Shakespeare's swooning iambic pentameter...
...that a new civilian government could quickly exert control. Out on the streets, even the demonstrators express reservations about life without a monarch. "No one has a clear road map for what might happen after the King," says one, 26-year-old Ravi Shah, an administrator with a youth-education charity. "We've had a system of Kings for 237 years. Is it possible to just throw them out?" Bhandari concurs. He says that whatever the King's faults, the older generation still revere him as an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, a symbol of national unity...