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Sept. 11 brought home a terrible truth. It revealed a mortal enemy, even more fanatical than the vanquished scourges of the 20th century (fascism and communism), lying this time in the bosom of the Arab world. It was temporarily housed in Afghanistan, but it was not Afghan. It has non-Arab Islamic adherents, but it is not pan-Islamic. It does not speak for all Arabs, but it does speak to Arab frustrations, failures and fantasies, what Fouad Ajami has called "the dream palace of the Arabs...
...these new treatments are only a beginning. Genomics is already considered hopelessly 20th century by the scientists who have moved on to proteomics, the study of the proteins for which the genes provide the instructions. Since a typical gene may yield as many as 20,500 different kinds of proteins, scientists are only now figuring out how to begin to figure them out. Researchers don't even know how many proteins there are or how they fold, which means among other things that a whole new kind of machine is needed to study them. The new computers are coming...
...year Henry Luce and Briton Hadden started this magazine. One day that year, the obscure rabble-rouser Adolf Hitler grabbed his first headlines by staging his failed beer-hall putsch. One day the following year, Lenin died, making way for Stalin. It was clear that the 20th century was not moving on horseback. One evening just three years later, Charles Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, and suddenly the world seemed a lot smaller...
Although Taylor has done impressive work with Romantic music, the 33-year-old artist is better known for his unconventional programming and advocacy of late 20th century music—although he will modestly tell you that this is because fewer pianists choose to play...
IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. The exhibit features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions. See full story in last week’s issue. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free to Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under...