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...March 11, I expected to see and hear expressions of solidarity toward the Spanish. Acknowledgement of what had happened that morning—a moment of silence at the beginning of class, flags at half-mast, something. At least at Harvard, we had no moment of silence, no mention of the tragedy, no American flag at half-mast. Only Schoenhof’s, the foreign bookstore on Mount Auburn St., made a gesture by draping their Spanish flag at half-mast. So much for international community—only a foreign bookstore had taken the time to acknowledge 200 dead...
...elements beyond the text are as riveting as can be. It is easy to get hooked by a boy-meets-girl story; it’s a lot harder to get interested in the sight of a lucid, crippled man screaming for help while two characters blindly yammer about flag-folding right beside...
...that flag-folding scene is a perfectly typical scenario in A Lie of the Mind, which was staged at Zero Church Street last weekend by the American Repertory Theater and the Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (ART/MXAT). The production itself was not a bad one; I’d be happy to see most of its company in a play that was grounded in sanity and realism. But watching them take on A Lie of the Mind only emphasized that many of its actors were still learning how to make complicated characters believable, and that together...
...International Association of Fire Fighters expresses outrage that the Bush campaign used the image of firemen carrying a flag-draped stretcher out of the World Trade Center rubble. The charge is suspect not just because it comes from a union that endorsed John Kerry last year; on the merits, it makes no sense. Would it be wrong for an antiwar candidate to show a photo of, say, the burial service for a soldier who fell in Iraq? Would it be wrong for a pro-war candidate to show, say, Saddam's mass graves...
...shocked with myself that I hadn’t done enough already,” said Joseph R. Geschlecht ’06 as he waved a rainbow flag. “I hadn’t been doing a whole lot of productive stuff. It occurred to me this isn’t an abstract debate. It directly affects my life...