The youth vote in this November election will be comprised of the 18 to 29 years olds (sorry, I put under 30 in “youth”) who are registered to vote – or can get an absentee ballot sent to them wherever they are.

So maybe we’re shorter than the rest of America, we cause a little more trouble, and some of us can’t even legally drink a glass of wine. No matter. The American youth today has shining peaks of greatness, and I’m not just talking about the towering and ever-happy world champion Michael Phelps

Maybe you’re thinking, “Jon Bon Jovi? What do I have in common with a 46-year-old man who has a son named Romeo and a collection of tattoos my mother would kill me for copying?”

It was the very last question that took me most by surprise. After a handful of students lined the aisle of Gaston Hall to question News Corporation Director and Chairman Rupert Murdoch – mostly about the competing futures of Myspace (recently acquired by News Corp.) and Facebook ...

How many of you, when you get a song stuck in your head, hum Tchaikovsky? Who else has 45 little sisters for whom they are entirely responsible? Who wakes up in the middle of the night panicked from a nightmare where the soldiers missed their barn door completely, or were late for their entrance cue, of the cannon didn’t go off?

Have you ever felt the warm comfort of returning to a familiar place? There’s a sense of safety, comfort and convenient predictability to its rhythm. Well, have you ever returned to the same place for over forty years? The company and the school of the Washington Ballet have, ever since the premier of Mary Day’s production of The Nutcracker in 1961.