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...Korea seems to have taken over the space in America's collective consciousness formerly occupied by the planet Mongo. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Alex Raymond, the distant Mongo, as ruled by the diabolical Ming the Merciless, a jaundiced and slant-eyed despot, perpetually plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable attempt...
...most U.S. citizens live in a different kind of perpetual fear? Both homegrown gun violence and international terrorism have literally raised our "threat level" to red. And didn't the current U.S. President characterize North Korea as part of an "Axis of Evil," a rhetorical flourish worthy of Flash Gordon...
Christopher Gordon, who led the $4.4 billion renovation of Logan International Airport, will assume the position of chief operating officer for Allston development next month, Harvard announced yesterday...
...Gordon said he can envision Smail’s creativity contributing to Harvard’s long history of intellectual leadership in the teaching of medieval history...
...Smail] is at a relatively early stage in his career, but he’s already written two excellent books,” Gordon said. “He is very focused at a micro level on particular places and times, but he also asks large questions with big implications about culture and society generally and about the medieval world in general...