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...Harvard is full of left-leaning elitists” claim than to the “Harry spreads the word of the devil” claim. But though the Potter-haters’ cries that books featuring wizardry will make Satanists of our nation’s youth are clearly out of left field, their near-religious zeal in their wrath for our four-eyed hero has caused the series to become most frequently challenged books in America. Hyperprotective parents and right-wing fanatics alike have joined in the effort to have the books banned from libraries across the country...
...tumult in Tehran's streets suggests that the country's youth will not be quieted for long. More than 60% of Iran's 70 million people are under the age of 30. The oldest were just starting school when the Shah was toppled by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. Their fathers and uncles were sacrificed to Iraqi missiles and mines in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which claimed more than 300,000 Iranian lives. They have inherited bitter memories and unrelenting strictures, and now the boys want girlfriends with whom they can hold hands and socialize freely...
...Tehran mosque found it had been turned into a sort of feminist refuge. All the women had removed their veils, the younger women were smoking cigarettes, and one mother was helping her teenage daughter wriggle into a new pair of jeans that were too tight. Last week Tehran's youth announced it was tired of enjoying freedoms only in secluded rooms. --With reporting by Mehrdad Mirdamadi/Tehran
...Hyatt ran for Senate from Ohio in 1994, unsuccessfully seeking the seat that was vacated by the retirement of his father-in-law, Howard Metzenbaum.) One entertainment industry source who met with Gore and Hyatt earlier this year said that, at that time, part of what they envisioned was youth-oriented programming, "putting video cameras in the hands of kids." Another source close to Gore and Hyatt says the venture would not resemble a traditional cable news outlet, but would be "something totally different in concept and format...
...contradictions to the aspirations of ordinary Hong Kongers. One of their most famous songs, 1990's Days of Glory, is about Nelson Mandela: "Today there's only a battered body left to welcome the days of glory/ Holding on tight to freedom." For many of Hong Kong's apolitical youth, it was the first time they had heard of the South African leader...