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...police screamed to the people running from the towers, ?Don?t look back!??a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as ?asymmetrical warfare.? So what? Most of history is a pageant of asymmetries. It is mostly the asymmetries that cause history to happen?an obscure Schickelgruber nearly destroys Europe; a mere atom, artfully diddled, incinerates a city. Elegant perplexity puts too much emphasis on the ?asymmetrical? side of the phrase and not enough on the fact that it is, indeed, real warfare...
...desperate effort to get with the times, the Miss America Pageant announced it will incorporate Survivor-type elements into this year's show. Contestants who don't make the finals will get to vote on who should wear the crown. Is this any way to run a pageant? As viewers of the summer's reality shows can attest, the democratic process hardly means the best man, or beauty queen, comes out on top. In fact, it's usually just the opposite...
...toward natural products. Manufacturers know that to win a share of the fast-growing black cosmetic business they need to emphasize safety and natural ingredients like fruit and plant extracts. "The mentality is changing," says Kenyan model Bidanya Barassa, 23, a 1998 finalist in the Face of Africa pageant, a beauty contest run by the South African TV company M-Net that showcases African models of all shades. Barassa says she has lost out in other pageants and for jobs because judges or clients prefer lighter-skinned models. She didn't mind too much, she says, because she knows...
...their first major protest of the year, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) living wage campaign stages a mock Christmas pageant entitled Neil Rudenstine‘s Christmas in Jail in front of the Science Center to protest Harvard’s lack of a living wage...
...instance, advised movie producers not to mention the genocide. The O.W.I. had surveys showing substantial anti-Semitism in the U.S. Better, it thought, to play the Nazis in traditional enemy style, as geopolitical bullies. This avoidance was true everywhere in the culture. Ben Hecht, the screenwriter, wrote a pageant depicting the extermination of 2 million Jews--an accurate figure as of 1943. It was officially shunned, marginalized. "This generational thing is s____," says Robert Kotlowitz, noting the virulent anti-Semitism he encountered in the Army. He's the author of Before Their Time, a powerful memoir of wartime infantry service...