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...play aims “to confront the gap between the selves we present and the selves we really are,” says producer Joanna S.B. O’Leary ’03, referring both to Closer and students at Harvard...
Critics often suggest that these photographs increase viewers’ awareness of the banal objects we confront on a daily basis. As Paul states on the wall text, “these idiosyncratic scenes not only allow us to see such everyday objects afresh but also draw our attention to the relation between objects and their users.” These images do not exist simply to give us a greater understanding of the importance of orange peels or pomegranate skins. Viewed in the context of his portraits, one begins to see that these disposable items are the traces left...
...Pyongyang, suspended since early 2001. But when Assistant Secretary of State Kelly took off for North Korea in early October, the purpose of his mission had changed dramatically. The CIA had briefed Bush in August about its new intelligence on Pyongyang's secret enrichment program. The President decided to confront Kim with the evidence, but the Administration first shared it with several congressional leaders and key countries that the U.S. would need to help lean on Pyongyang: Japan, South Korea, China and Russia...
...ways, the U.S. may be using forces too big for their own good. In snippets of conversations intercepted by U.S. intelligence, al-Qaeda leaders have instructed cell members simply to lie low when Americans descend because "there's too many of them." Says Colonel James Huggins: "They won't confront us in our superior numbers," which makes them almost impossible...
...that stripped the countryside of animals. In other countries there have been terrifying fires. All these events were disasters that did not need a terrorist to set them off. A single reasonably intelligent person could have caused any of them, yet the U.S. still plans to use bombers to confront a potentially invisible terrorist. A million missiles are of no use against a teenager with a briefcase. BILL AGNEW Ecclefechan, Scotland...