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...have always had a strange obsession with dates—with the passage of time. When I was young, I would document the dates and times of every significant event of my personal life: the arrival of my college acceptance letter, or the last day of school. It was part of an obsessive compulsive desire to remember things in the future, a naïve hope that I could someday look back and revel in the fact that at 5:37 p.m. on a May 16, I took my last high school exam...
...different things, through someone else’s laugh, through a test I’ve saved from third grade with her signature, or through a scene different than my home. I can run my fingers over it, it is like the dates I used to write down and document, but my reliving is cruelly limited. I am at the mercy of these limitations, of this surreal reality of recollection...
...however, believe you can learn a lot from idle observation, in addition to laughing at those who pick their noses. That’s what I have tried to do with this column this year: faithfully document the words and actions of my peers with the utmost in journalistic exactitude. “The Bystander” is an objective, balanced, wholly veracious account of the many facets of life at Harvard College. It is a comprehensive portrait, and a deeply insightful one at that...
...Obeidi, who issued a statement from the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, added: "This document does not call for disbanding al-Mahdi Army or laying down their arms...
...both chronicles the artist's bodily and sensory impoverishment, and offers a timely glimpse into a country that is itself a prison to millions of its citizens. In Htein Lin's crowded, largely expressionist scenes, skeletal figures cower in tiny cells, their gaping, hungry mouths sealed by bars. Some document prison rituals like body searches and work on chain gangs. One particularly haunting canvas, Six Fingers, alludes to the prisoners' practice of chopping off their own digits with spades. "If a prisoner didn't want to go to the labor camps, he had to pay a lot of money," Htein...