Word: forgottenness
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...administrators should look beyond the stories that dominate the nightly news. If, for example, Harvard were to announce tomorrow that it will match affiliates’ donations to famine relief in Malawi, such a bold move would—at least briefly—redirect media attention to a forgotten crisis. And it would show that when administrators characterize Harvard as a “global university,” they’re willing to put their money where their collective mouth is. Daniel J. Hemel ’07, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Lowell...
...film Paradise Now, a young Palestinian stands in front of a video camera taping his martyr's message before being dispatched to Tel Aviv on a suicide mission. Then the sight of one of his handlers munching a sandwich sets him thinking about his mother, and how he has forgotten to give her some last-minute household instructions. "Mom, before I forget," he says, veering from the script, clutching a Kalashnikov rifle, "I saw some good water filters at Al Mokhtar ... buy them there next time." In a film packed with wrenching moments, this one remains one of the most...
That's not to say the folks from Stuttgart have forgotten the niceties. There are cupholders that can handle a grande latte, and there's an integrated bottle opener. (What, no corkscrew?) Coolest feature: you can plug your iPod into the audio system through a connection in the glove box. More important, the R-Class is as roomy as a suburb, even if the exterior design fails to excite. TIME's backseat test passenger--all 6 ft. 8 in. of him--hadn't had that much room in a car since he was 10 years younger and a foot shorter...
...busy ourselves in the comfort and safety of our own country, Iraq seems far away. Crawford reminds us that war is all too easily forgotten and our soldiers need to return as soon as possible...
...it’s like, ‘Well, okay, let’s move on, get ready for the Super Bowl.’” Panelist Tonya Cropper, a student at the Kennedy School of Government and former New Orleans resident, also said that Americans have forgotten that the victims of Katrina are human like them.“Most people cannot identify themselves with black babies on the streets, elderly people on the streets. People will think, ‘Oh, I would leave,’ but do not realize these people cannot...