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With the President of the United States calling bin Laden “the Evil One,” and the president of our university reinvoking the metaphor of Harvard as the “Torch of Truth,” we must ask ourselves, to what end do these metaphors serve? When the media renames the events of Sept. 11 a second “Day of Infamy,” what is the effect on our thoughts and discourse...
Each of us must also face the troubling reality that, in this war, the term “home front” is no longer a metaphor. Our enemies have already shown, to devastating effect, their ability to penetrate our shores. America must prepare itself for the possibility—or, perhaps, the certainty—that terrorists will attempt to attack us again as we work, play, study and live our lives. But we must never let our preparedness give way to fear and hesitancy. Our diplomatic efforts had failed, due to the obstinancy of the Taliban...
...like the intellectual idea that runs through the play,” said Carr. “The square root of negative one is a really interesting metaphor for how we give ourselves false answers...
...inflated sense of themselves, their lofty positions over their peers, that they indulge in needless abuse. Compers of the Lampoon’s literature board—the writers—meet with established ‘Poonsters at “office hours.” The metaphor is telling. The people who make these organizations’ processes such a pain aren’t imitating real businesses; this isn’t how real magazines or newspapers hire staff. They’re mimicking Harvard itself...
...Greenwich Village and "evil" is what we call the prices at the new Chanel store in SoHo, the concept of miracles seemed a little hokey until last week. A pointy-head at one of the city's universities might have said the idea of the miraculous is an old metaphor that needs demystifying...