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...least in the short term, the terror attacks have not yet changed pop culture so much as suspended it. "No humor column today," wrote syndicated funnyman Dave Barry. "I don't want to write it, and you don't want to read it." Sports went on hiatus, and after they returned, a preseason hockey game between longtime rivals New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers ended with the players watching President Bush's address to Congress, shaking hands and skating off the ice in midgame. Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series...
...know that we want these terrorists to be brought to justice, but that we cannot support indiscriminate violence against innocents who have been suffering under so-called Islamic regimes. A day before the attacks in the U.S., I wrote a scathing column in a London newspaper calling for moderate Muslims to denounce the Taliban and other "Islamic" rulers who make me ashamed to be a Muslim. I criticized British Muslims for failing to condemn militants, the oppressors of women and those who have developed such a joyless and oppressive Islam on our own shores. My e-mail system was jammed...
...Then came the terrible tragedy in the U.S., and I said both on TV and in my newspaper column that tough action against the terrorists was necessary but that right now there should be a period of reflection. The U.S. needs a deeper understanding of the causes of anti-American feeling among so many around the world. People despise the hubristic rhetoric, which has become markedly louder since the fall of the Berlin Wall. For the mildest of Muslims who support the right of Israel to exist, the punishment of the Iraqi people and the recent hard-line Israeli tactics...
...column that I hope to write will be a silly bi-weekly romp through the pages of Glamour magazine, complete with tantrum-type rants and bizarro generalities about a magazine we all pretend not to read. I hope to add a splash of frivolity to the editorial page while putting in print the psuedo-stream of consciousness babble that echoes in the recesses of my mind. But, for obvious reasons, I found that I couldn’t jump into the intended frivolity with this, my first column. The crumpled, thumbed-through Glamour is sitting on my coffee table...
Antoinette C. Nwandu ’02 is an English concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...