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...sign of creeping liberalization. Young Internet surfers have inundated chat rooms with a new slogan: "Keep it up, Brother Hu." The message echoed calls nearly two decades earlier when students championed the newly promoted reformist leader Deng Xiaoping by chanting en masse, "Hello, Xiaoping." The support of politically active youth helped cement Deng's authority, and students today hope to do the same for Hu. "We need to show our support for Hu Jintao, because if he becomes weak, the Old Guard could reassert their power," says Kitty Wang, a student at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, former President Jiang Zemin...
When Cuban president Fidel Castro took power, in 1959, Oswaldo Payá was in primary school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months...
...always fast starters that look sensational at the beginning only to fade into Bolivian (thank you, Mike Tyson). Last April, Kenny Lofton appeared to have regained his 1993 form. A fledgling baseball fan may have thought that Lofton was back—that he had found the fountain of youth and would finally get back to stealing 70 bases a year while hitting over...
Goodall also discussed her youth program, “Roots and Shoots...
...main part of the ceremony took place at the New England Aquarium’s IMAX Theatre, where the 400-seat space was packed with an audience that included approximately 30 school children participating in one of Goodall’s youth programs...