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...tragedy that traces the lives of four Trojan women awaiting their fates after the fall of Troy and the deaths of their husbands. “Trojan Women” focuses on war’s inhumanities by depicting personal histories and the intimate—almost palpable??pains of its heroines. Like Euripedes’ play, “Trojan Barbie” draws its poignancy from the intimate. Scenes of warfare and violence are hauntingly relatable because of their extra-temporal nature; these hate crimes are timeless and place-less. “Trojan Barbie?...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Barbie’ Revives, Revises Tragedy | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...Wars are these extended periods of nothingness punctuated by periods of chaos,” said Lt. Col. Darry C. Johnson, a 27-year army veteran who is now a national security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. “The tension is palpable, the danger is palpable??You’re very much on edge—it’s very difficult to relax...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Crimson Call of Duty: Student Soldiers | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

This year’s cover, set against an intriguing hot pink background with two young co-eds in the foreground, depicts that oh-so-typical midnight Cinderella moment in the Yard. Who hasn’t been there? The electricity of the moment is palpable??so palpable, in fact, that though the students may be able to control their lust, they cannot control their letters and numbers, which embrace in the sky above them in a glowing dance of alphanumeric romance. Though the students’ distance and body language...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Unofficially Awful | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...only hope that Harvard’s present generation will look to University landmarks like Memorial Hall, Memorial Church and the murals in Widener Library and realize that these enduring icons to freedom were forged out of convictions backed by palpable??indeed, often ultimate—self-sacrifice on behalf of our Republic...

Author: By Paul D. Korchin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sacrifices of the Past | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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