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...WITWIOBL Spurlock hears thoughtful comments from people who've lived under the scythe of war all their lives. A young Palestinian man laments that "9/11 legitimized the American presence in the Middle East" and insists that "We are fighting to make our homeland. It's none of their [al-Qaeda's] business." An Israeli journalist, discussing the Palestinian problem, mourns that "We're being held hostage by extremists from both sides." In Afghanistan, one fellow says of OBL, "If we find him, we'll tear him apart." Then Spurlock asks an old man about bin Laden's whereabouts...
...true. The reader can’t get involved in this, can’t grow attached, and so, even though there is some sort of emotional trajectory written into the story and some sort of movement in the work, it feels as if there is none. The only real action that the reader experiences is the progression of thought. And this is the realm that Gessen is truly concerned about.“Literary Men” is a novel obsessed with ideas. Each character lives in the world of his thoughts, fanatically obsessed with a particular subject?...
...does one describe Björk’s music video for her single “Wanderlust” in words that are commonly used in the English language? Ridiculous, pretentious, and just plain weird come to mind, though none of those actually describe the plot of this travesty. Allow me to do my best. The video, presented in stereoscopic 3D, opens with a creature—best described as the bastard child of a yak and a mastodon—lapping from a stream. There is, in fact, a herd of these creatures, and Bj?...
...make lots of noise, and yell, and everyone contributes creative ideas,” Lauren E. Bray ’08 says. What is this dynamic mixture of noise, yelling, and creativity? None other than The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD), a percussion ensemble that performs on both standard percussion instruments and household items like trash cans and cups. Bray, who has been a member since her sophomore year, will be performing with THUD in Lowell Lecture Hall today. Bray says that her top priority is the audience. “With everything we do, we just think: Is that entertaining...
...recent realignments in foreign relations have seemed substantial - France's new engagement with the U.S.; musical chairs in the Kremlin; the Shi'a revival; the defeat of Australia's long-serving Prime Minister John Howard; indeed, the departure in June last year of Blair - none of them match the seismic shift expected on Nov. 4. Despite the growing power of China and India and a resurgent Russia, the election of a new U.S. President is still the biggest event in the international political calendar...