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New Year's Resolution: A New Dawn
By: Michal Zapendowski, Brown University, formerly of Poland
January 4, 2007 11:47 AM

I have one wish for young people all over the world - whether they are living under a dictatorship that would crush them, as I once was, living in poverty that would crush them, as I never have, or in the freedom and prosperity that can crush through its meaninglessness and materialism.

Our parents' generation saw the world as a great dawn, and today many of those hopes have been replaced by hatreds and uncertainties. There would be no greater happiness in life, I think, than if the sunset of our own lives coincided with a new dawn.

This will necessarily mean something different to each individual; however, my wish for every young person in the world is for them to share this hope - a hope that we can and will make this world better, as we grow older and many of us fill positions of responsibility.

My wish is that 2007 will give young people the world over a greater confidence in their own ability to bring about change, and in the long term, to set the stage for better and brighter new years to come, as our generation reinvents the world it inherits.

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The people of the united states need to remember that, The people should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of it's people. The government and the politicians running our government also need to realize this. We have the constitutional right to revolutionize this government and I think that Washington has forgotten this. In no means am I an anarchist, I just feel that the people have lost THEIR power to control THEIR contry.
Posted by: Bradley | January 10, 2007 2:19 PM

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