Word: iconoclasm
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...well be America's Most-Despised Cartoonist--a title he earned earlier this year by making fun of Sept. 11 widows--but at least Rall came by his iconoclasm the hard way. Last November he went to Afghanistan, where he spent the next few weeks bored, terrified and enraged with the corruption and cynicism he witnessed. Rall's "graphic travelogue" is a gritty mix of photos, prose and his distinctive cartoons, which look as if they were drawn on the back of a math notebook. Though his perpetual jadedness can be infuriating, it's an astringent alternative to government press...
...universities as institutions whose function is essentially conservative: they exist in order to preserve and transmit traditional forms of knowledge, and so maintain profound ties to the past. But at the same time, the relative autonomy of universities has allowed them to function historically as sites of critique and iconoclasm. The strange thing about universities in this sense is that they are at once staunch defenders of tradition and hotbeds of radicalism...
...Despite periodic vandalism, theft and iconoclasm, Bamiyan's Buddhas survived for nearly 18 centuries. Genghis Khan did not touch them?he was quite tolerant of other religions. The Shia Muslim Hazara who live in the valley protected them, and adherents of Sufi Islam, a mystical sect with a wide following in Afghanistan, see echoes of Buddhism in their own practices. But last March, Taliban commanders flew in by helicopter. A public meeting was called, and the main speaker, then-Defense Minister Obaidullah Akhund?who reportedly surrendered to the new government last week and was set free?read a decree...
MICHAEL O'LEARY Airline Executive In his jeans-wearing corporate iconoclasm, O'Leary resembles fellow airline entrepreneur Richard Branson. While most carriers were paralyzed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, O'Leary, 40, chief executive of Dublin-based Ryanair, jumped into action, slashing fares for all seats on his no-frills airline to $15, selling a record number of tickets in one week. He took over the money-losing Ryanair in 1990 and made it profitable within a year. Even as others in the industry were cutting back earlier this year, Ryanair was growing, making short jaunts between 55 European...
...instead Harvard’s unique mixture of tradition and iconoclasm, of establishment and revolution, nurtured by the University’s commitment to its history even in the face of sometimes-destabilizing intellectual progress, that puts our College at the top. Harvard shows no fear of moving beyond its past, embracing the theories of modernism and postmodernism in its curriculum, hiring professors who study any number of new disciplines and working each year to welcome into the student community greater numbers of those who were once shunned...