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...artificial, removed-from-life solutions. "I know everything in the White House connects to what I'm doing, but it seems so far away," says John Jackson, a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, who has been unable to find a summer job, even as a cashier. Others express a sense of generational siege. "The AARP ((American Association of Retired Persons)) has the power to mortgage our future," says Joe Ross Edelheit, 21, a former field coordinator for presidential candidate Paul Tsongas. "Our generation is under attack...
...least a third of the upstarts will be able to stay aloft, thanks in large part to more protective regulators and trails blazed by their predecessors. "These new start-ups are a lot smarter and wiser because they've learned from our mistakes," says Donald Burr, founder of People Express, who is considering making a comeback...
...latest issue, American Enterprise reports that huge majorities in every G-7 country but one -- Japan, surprisingly -- express unhappiness with the direction their nations are taking: 71% in the U.S., 70% in Canada, 63% in Britain, 61% in France. The surveys bear out a growing sense that electorates see their leaders not as temporarily lost pathfinders so much as empty suits. Deriding the gallery of statesmen manque he saw before him, columnist Norman Stone of the Times of London quoted Nietzsche: "I sowed dragons and I reaped fleas...
...White House likes her," says an Administration official, "but they have to like her. There would be no greater loss to our integrity than to have her leave or express dissatisfaction, so we can't cross her. She is simply too popular. It just so happens that she's very, very good and responsible. She's not personally ambitious. I don't think it's particularly important to her that the President like her. If she were power-mad, it would be dangerous...
...Wanderer", epitomizes this search of the human soul lost in the midst of a dehumanizing modern era. Johnny Cash sings in this original U2 song: "I went out walking through streets paved with gold/Lifted some stones/Saw the skin and bones/Of a city without a soul." His earthy, gruff vocals express the world-weariness of his wandering persona perfectly. Yet they contrast oddly with the drudging synthesizer beat, to convey a sense of disjointedness...