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...simply looks like blocks and stripes of rich vibrant colors. Only upon closer examination do the rolling fields of Italy reveal themselves. Faces from around the world punctuate the display of scenic terrains, giving the geometric landscapes a human side and situating them within a larger context. An old Cretan woman framed in her yellow doorway stands alone observing a campaign speech. Young boys solemnly look at the camera while apprenticing at a monastery in central Bhutan. In the village of west Hanoi children poke fun at the camera, while somewhere in the outskirts of Kamapala, Uganda, a mysterious woman...
...years, were meant to ward off evil spirits from harming an infant. But there's a larger magic at work: seen through the display's myriad vessels, statues, seals and pendants, the cultures of antiquity take shape in a world system threaded together by commerce and collaboration. Cretan fish motifs adorn the frescoes from a Syrian nobleman's house hundreds of miles away from the sea. Recovered relics from the 20-ton cargo of the world's oldest shipwreck span communities from the Red Sea to the faraway Baltic. (See pictures of New York City...
...most poignant of all confrontations with truth is confession. Yet in his nationally televised confrontation with truth, Clinton revealed a notion of truth as endlessly self-reflecting as a fun-house mirror. It has the vertiginous feel of Epimenides' paradox, which (in one version) reads, "All Cretans are liars. I am a Cretan. Therefore I am a liar." (But, of course, if I am a liar, I'm lying about being a liar, and thus I'm not.) The lies-feeding-lies circularity is deeply disturbing. You feel you can never climb...
...Hoopes prize also went to Alexandra M. Molnar '96 for "Through the Lens of Tourism: Shaping Identity in a Cretan Town"; Roxanne S. Tze Pan '96 for "Searching for the New Citizen: Liang Qichao's Conception of Freedom"; Michele R. Pelot '96 for "Mixed Chimerism and Adoptive Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Leukemias"; Timothy F. Platts-Mills '96 for "Spatial Variation in the Chemical Composition of Surface Waters in the Front Range, Colorado"; Elizabeth G. Ree '96 for "'Is It Art?': Changing Perceptions of Modernism and the Function of Art by the Public, Critics and Writers in Response...
...help us along the road because the material might be in some sense dry and arcane to many people. Each actor has a little riddle or an obstacle for Garrison, who has to work his way around it to move farther into the heart of the labyrinth, where the Cretan Minotaur lives...