Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opportunity to make a little more money and have a little more fun. Gone are dreams of Che Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury to risk their livelihoods waging political protest nor the nothing-to-lose desperation and rage that...
...April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details are, by definition, state secrets themselves.) And last week, a newspaper run by the China Youth Daily called Bingdian Weekly was quietly shut down after publishing an article about democracy in Taiwan...
Several of his relatives—“my grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins,” he said—cheered from the stands. It was a banner moment for Los Angeles’ native son, who despite spending his youth in Trumbull, Conn., and at Harvard, never quite left home...
...Cabot’s experience in basic training was no more successful. A vicious case of measles in his youth left him with a limp that would have required him to repeat the whole process. Frustrated, he left the military in 1957. He enrolled in Harvard Business School and, after graduating, began a career as an investment analyst. He worked at Putnam Management Company before transferring to Wellington and becoming a portfolio manager...
...Dutt's breakthrough role came in 1957 as an idealistic young man who stands up to loan sharks in the Academy Award-nominated classic Mother India. Elected to Parliament five times starting in 1984 as a member of the Congress Party, he became India's Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs in 2004. On his death, chairperson of India's ruling coalition Sonia Gandhi praised him as a "good friend," and India declared a national day of mourning...