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...portrayal in your story "Generation Jihad" of Muslim youth in Europe and other parts of the Western world made me uneasy [Oct. 3]. You described young Muslims as frustrated by lack of opportunities in Europe and motivated by the idea that the West is waging an assault on Islam. As a Pakistani student studying in the U.S., I would like to point out that the vast majority of Muslim youth in the West are working against ideas of jihadist violence and hatred...
...Banglie was once a hero in Beijing. A 34-year-old farmer from the rice-basket province of Hubei, he was praised last year by the Communist Party-owned China Youth Daily for leading a movement to impeach a village chief who residents say was corrupt. The paper told Lu's tale: launching a five-day hunger strike, getting roughed up by thugs and investigating political conditions in other villages across China. When his campaign finally forced his village chief to resign in 2003, the paper said, Lu emerged as "the front runner of peasant grassroots democracy...
...TIME: Bill Cosby has been attacked for criticizing inner-city black youth and blaming their parents for bad parenting. Do you agree with...
Harvard students may have known it all along, but now the rest of the nation is finally taking notice: Cambridge is a great place for youths. Cambridge was honored last month as one of the 100 best Communities for Young People by America’s Promise, an alliance founded by former secretary of state Colin L. Powell to help children succeed. Cambridge was chosen from over 1,000 communities around the country, according to Mike McGill, managing editor for America’s Promise. America’s Promise recognized Cambridge’s efforts in five areas: involvement...
...high school senior, I found a video tape with a couple of old “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” episodes on it. On a Model UN field trip that year, I popped it in, and a bus filled with high-schoolers settled back to recapture their youth. While the theme song remained catchy (They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team/They’re the heroes on the half-shell and they’re green!), we had a rude awakening soon after: the show was awful. Some other undergrads shared...