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...will not take long for people to forget the production of H Bomb altogether—just as the memory of the snow phallus melted with the coming of last spring. And Janet’s bare breast will certainly be forgotten by the American consciousness soon enough. But our national obsession with these frivolous sexual encounters is doing more harm than we realize. And while we continue to focus our attention on the trivial and the meaningless, we conveniently distract ourselves from things that might really matter...
...centuries, much of the post-colonial world is multilingual—following U.S. news, watching President Bush’s speeches and developing first-hand opinions about America. Much of America, however, remains proudly English-only, especially proud of exporting its media along with its Coca-Cola. We often forget that the world is getting our message all too well—and analyzing it while we sit mesmerized by flashy graphics on Fox News, oblivious to what they have to say. As we begin the twenty-first century we are leaving the era of military omnipotence and entering into...
...time for us to embrace the split screen and open our eyes to the stories that aren’t our own. This is the only way to compete in the world of cable and cable modems. But if we flip channels too fast, we’ll forget that each picture is in fact a moving image, internally dynamic and colorful. Each of us should take a trip to Out of Town News, one of the oldest and dearest institutions in the Square, look at the pictures in a variety of papers, dredge up the languages we took...
...girls I meet, if you want me to help you with a college application, great. But if you want me to show you how to use mascara, forget it,” Harold said. “Beauty has to be backed up with something more substantial...
...calculating brutality, self-doubt and moral ambivalence are weaknesses in a place like Baghdad. It is the job of those who command these troops, the political leaders who receive the blind faith of our armed forces, to truly honor the sacrifices these men and women make. We must never forget that war is fought by human beings. If we are truly going to support our troops, we ought to feed them right and pay them well. Most importantly, let them know just what it is they are doing over there. The problem is, I don’t think anybody...