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...plane descended to a veritable horde of emergency vehicles, lights flashing in anxious anticipation, I realized what the whole world except for the passengers on board flight 210 knew: the plane—and our lives—had been in serious danger the whole time. Following a quick tow to the deserted gate, Midwest graciously wined and dined its inconvenienced passengers, put us up in the airport Hilton, and offered us two “unrestricted” round trip ticket vouchers to anywhere Midwest Airlines flies. Which, by the way, is not just the mid-west...
...editors: We applaud Paul R. Katz for identifying the urgent need for strong pro-choice action at Harvard and beyond (“Have Pro-Choicers Aborted Ship? op-ed, Jan. 4). At this very moment, reproductive rights are in grave danger. This threat is illustrated by the nomination of anti-choice Samuel Alito to our nation’s highest court and the refusal of pharmacies to stock or dispense emergency contraception, an Food and Drug Administratoin-approved medication that prevents unintended pregnancies and, thus, subsequent abortions. It is at this critical moment that Harvard needs a strong...
...makes a breathless case that the U.S. has shifted from a liberal democracy, pledging a better life for its citizens, to a threatening oligarchy, using the specter of alien enemies (lately al-Qaeda) to keep the public in fretful subjugation. He also argues that American neoconservatives have exaggerated the danger posed by Islamic jihadists. The argument, buttressed with a sassy use of news footage and clips from old films and TV shows, zips along with the confident menace of an old horror film. Indeed, with its many questionable rhetorical devices, it's best viewed as a work of docufiction...
Mining, however, is a different kind of danger, and its disasters take us not just out of our routine but out of our time. The men?and they are still mostly men?risk explosion or asphyxiation, to say nothing of cancer and emphysema, not for a principle or a geopolitical end but to put food on the table. They hark back to Dickensian, even prehistoric times, when making a living meant chancing death...
Whatever role today's anxieties and media play, the terror and fascination of entombment tap into something primal. To be trapped underground is to be not just in danger but separated from the world of the living. What is underground? It is where the dead are buried. It is where cultures have placed the underworld in their eschatology, where souls are judged and the wicked rent by monsters, boiled in oil or raked by demons over flaming coals...