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...dining hall, who is bleary-eyed from working two jobs to support his family. It also means that I have something in common with the Iranian student, also exhausted from preparing for exams, but with more on her mind than tests because she is as involved in a youth democracy protest movement as I am involved in the Institute of Politics. Politically, it means that we take those to task who cause suffering, whether they are treating their employees unfairly or suppressing protest in the streets. The latter is a principle that should motivate our dealings with states as varied...
...time when Chinese-made products are seizing global markets, the 12 Girls Band has become the mainland's first pop-musical export. The Sino-Japanese balance of cultural trade used to be decidedly in Japan's favor. Although Chinese youth followed Japanese TV dramas and pop idols, the straitlaced mainland entertainment industry offered little in exchange. But today, the 12 Girls Band (which actually numbers 13, including one alternate) is ubiquitous in Japan. They star in commercials for chocolate and cell phones, comedians parody them on TV, and in what may be the most compelling proof of their fame, there...
Well, I've always enjoyed research. I first did it in the summer of 1964, when I worked for a youth program in Harlem. They sent me to the Schomburg [Center for Research in Black Culture] to do a little research, and that's where I got bit by the history bug. It's not really work...
...network is kind of the same way. Coming up on its 10th birthday in 2005 - that's, like, 150 in youth-culture years - once a year it shows up, bobs its head, and promises to hang on to its young audience with a new set of teen soaps and hot young bodies that it injects into its schedule like Botox...
...been a bad ratings year for the network, which had to sit by and stew while bigger networks raided its youth niche with reality shows. In the ultimate WB indignity, it was Fox that landed last year's hot teen soap with "The O.C." Network CEO Jordan Levin flatly apologized to advertisers, in particular by practically promising to commit ritual suicide for having decided, last year, to focus on scripted rather than reality shows. "We will never make that mistake again," he pledged, mustering as much contrition as an entire administration did over the Abu Ghraib scandal...