Word: cartoons
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...overt forms at Harvard. Many Muslim students have experienced moments when they said they have felt surprised or offended by others’ assumptions about followers of Islam. A DOUBLE STANDARDA few months after Farid’s encounter, The Harvard Salient published the now-famous anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd responded with an e-mail to the conservative biweekly warning that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they may become dangerous.” She later...
...shame piles up by the side of the bed, staring us in the face every time we accidentally wake up in the morning. The shame’s name is The New Yorker; the shame is a reminder of our intellectual impotence and poor time-management skills. The cartoons are the only thing we read; we do it even though it makes us feel bad. FM got to interview the New Yorker’s cartoon editor Bob Mankoff when he guest-lectured at Harvard Medical School Professor Nancy Etcoff’s Psychology 987i: Science of Happiness lecture...
...went to the contentious Six Shooter, written by English playwright Martin McDonagh-a three-time Best Play nominee on Broadway who probably couldn?t have imagined he?d win an Oscar before he got a Tony. And in the Animated Short category, the award went not to the Pixar cartoon One Man Band but to John Canemaker?s The Moon and the Son, an airing of the director?s grievances against his demanding dad. (In his acceptance speech, Canemaker thanked every member of his family but the man whose ill will had inspired the film...
...doesn’t get a lot of use.Perhaps that’s because gamers for the most part no longer want to lock themselves in alone with their Xboxes. If events like the Smash Open and massive Halo parties continue to bolster gaming’s profile, cartoon combat and futuristic gunfire may join instant messenger’s chirp as sounds of perfectly acceptable-but virtual-social interaction.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...government was widely viewed as initially encouraging the cartoon protests as a way of reminding Washington of the extremist danger against which Musharraf is a bulwark, before cracking down when the protests turned against him. Even then, in the capital, the police proved unable to prevent a banned rally from going ahead. Some Pakistani analysts believe Musharraf is more vulnerable now than at any time since he seized power in a 1999 coup as he faces the combined challenges of foreign jihadists, tribal secessionists, indigenous Islamists and the liberal opposition...