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Larissa Zhou ’10, a joint Physics and Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, said that seeing the eclipse with the naked eye was a sharp contrast to studying much more distant heavenly bodies like Jupiter. Zhou said that her academic observations are much more weather-sensitive...
...9/11 to a much less galvanizing involvement in a “war based on lies.” The consequences are starkly depicted: a domestic tableau riven by a young veteran’s vacant manner and a society that’s wrung-out, disillusioned and distant. “Everyone I call up doesn’t have the time to chat,” Crow wearily relates. “Everyone is so busy doing this or doing that.”From that point forward, Crow delivers five successive tracks with political content. She flashes...
...rise, in the bars of a jungle-gym, in the arrangement of photographs, and even in a black wood bench (with a nearly invisible sign requesting “Please Do Not Sit”). The nature of the entanglements also generates the urge to discover hidden connections between distant pieces. There is an unobtrusive grid of small colored boxes in one of the black-and-white photographs of Caracas by Paolo Gasparini in the first room of the show; a similar pattern of colors turns up in a group of color photographs of the present-day city...
...Europe will never be in total agreement on the need to use force in out-of-the-way places. For the U.S. - as Gates said in Munich - Sept. 11, 2001 was a "galvanizing event, one that opened the American public's eyes to dangers from distant lands." Europeans too have suffered from terrorism, of course, but never on the scale of 9/11. For their part, Europeans are cognizant in a way that few Americans are that the use of force in the developing world can be counter-productive, summoning up the ghosts of a racist colonialism among those...
...nearby glade, Reinado, dressed in camouflage fatigues, held court. "The leaders say different things in front of the people and then different things in the back of the people," he began, angrily waving his rifle. His bodyguards fidgeted nervously as an Australian Black Hawk helicopter thudded away over a distant peak. In a rambling - at times incomprehensible - conversation, Reinado accused the Australian government of installing Ramos-Horta as a puppet to preside over the oil-fuelled economy, said he feared his life was under threat by supporters of the leftist Fretilin party who still sought to rule the country...