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...naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant. Rather than merely reflect the viewer—the mirror??s original purpose—the photograph offers a transcendent enchantment.This soft glow, as if the print were lit from behind, is common to the most persuasive of the photographs. These works carry the exhibition and instill a sense of mild but persistent wonderment.“Merchant?...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Photographing Distant Lands and Vanished Kingdoms | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...CampusTap creates a network that makes people more inclined to [blog],” he says. “The space is more useful. There will be a distinct public sphere at Harvard.”However, the site is not yet a “virtual mirror?? of the brick-and-mortar Harvard community. In the end, whether the Harvard blogosphere eventually becomes a true campus commonwealth hinges on the contributions of its participants.“The question is not how useful the program is, but how many people are willing to spend time to produce...

Author: By Vivien G.H. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Our Very Own Blogosphere | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

Hottest person you knew then: The most beautiful person in the world is my mother.Hottest person you know now: The Man in the Mirror??I mean, who else do I really know, and sometimes I don’t even know...

Author: By Emily T. Sabo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: This Used to be Their Playground | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...their glut of guts has largely been met with bitter scowls. According to a 2003 Gallup poll, 89 percent of the country opposes them, believing that—as Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., put it—fat people should “look in the mirror?? for the source of their problems. However, the U.S. Congress is wrong in its attempts to ensure that the other 11 percent never has its day in court...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Fat Cats Are Defendants, Too | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...inexact mirror?? of the pair’s personal histories ties into a broad theme of translation across warring cultures, Russian and American. The comparison reaches to such detail as the common motto of the Boy Scouts and the Soviet Young Pioneers—“be prepared.” In this story, mistranslation is the potential cause of apocalypse—the third, atomic, world war—and translation the cause of a peace-promoting sympathy between cultures...

Author: By Josiah P. Child, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crowley: Lost in Translation | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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