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...manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan, a retired university lecturer, "getting brainwashed" by the siren song of jihad. The causes are familiar: poor and segregated education, discrimination, youth unemployment (in Luton it stands at 22%, twice the national rate), teens' yearning for belonging and purpose - and a belief shared by many of their parents that Muslims are being persecuted in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine and Iraq. "A lot of young people I talk to say: If Blair...
...Like a talk-show host or a Presidential candidate, a critic of the popular arts can?t go wrong handing out lumps of coal and mockery. (Or, for that matter, lumps of Colin Mochrie.) But there?s good stuff out there. And as I age, grow decades past the youth in which every critic thinks he?s discovering the Pythagorean Theory with each new movie or song, I find that a lot of the best stuff is Back There. Back When...
This summer I worked as a counselor at a camp for gifted and talented middle and high school students—the kind of camp that many of us attended in our awkward youth. Students and counselors lived in a residence hall on a college campus, and to my surprise, the camp employed a live-in psychologist who provided periodic advice to the counselors and students. Not a day went by when his services weren’t called...
Houghton has spent nearly as many years representing the 29th district as Barend has been alive. But her supporters say Barend’s relative youth won’t hurt her potential candidacy...
...walk anywhere? Despite the rash of recent assaults, walking remains safe even at night: SafetyWalk’s reincarnation as the Harvard University Campus Escort Program means that no one need walk unaccompanied. Walking isn’t physically demanding, either, and we are in the bloom of our youth anyhow. Our hesitancy to walk seems instead to be a side-effect of our late-20th-century upbringing. We come, many of us, from a sidewalk-less, SUV-saturated suburbia that is famously inhospitable to walkers. Acquiring our cars was a rite of passage; our high schools were flanked...