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When French-Khmer graphic artist Ing Phouséra - or Séra, to use his pen name - first started drawing comics about life under the Khmer Rouge, he didn't have a lot to go on. He had fled Cambodia as a teen in April 1975, when Phnom Penh fell to Pol Pot's forces, and had lived in Paris his whole adult life. Visual arts - except in the service of propaganda - were banned during the four years of Khmer Rouge oppression, leaving scant images of a period in which nearly 20% of Séra's compatriots died...
...assure themselves they have, in fact, done the reading. As such, we should not hold them to any higher standard than absentminded doodling. The poet Collins ultimately comes to a similar conclusion: “We have all seized the white perimeter as our own / and reached for a pen if only to show / we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; / we pressed a thought into the wayside, / planted an impression along the verge...
...Harvard students who privately harbor fantasies that you’ll be famous one day would be well advised to join me in keeping a hypothetical rapt public in mind when you put pen to (the edge of the) paper. Because future historians will doubtlessly mine the margins of your old books for clues about your character...
...straying, but certainly publicly he seemed to be straying." Fallon plainly knew the explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last week before the Defense Secretary had seen it and warned him to "brace himself." Fallon told the Washington Post last Thursday that the article was "poison pen stuff" and called it "really disrespectful and ugly." In a statement issued Tuesday, he said "it would be best to step aside and allow the secretary and our military leaders to move beyond this distraction...
...like stepping back into Kindergarten: I, the short, klutzy spectator, was suddenly filled with the uplifting desire to drop my books and become a dancer. During Expressions Dance Company’s performance in the dimmed and lively Sanders Theater on Saturday, I found myself inadvertently tapping my pen to the beat. Nevermind the fact that I lack the graceful swanlike legs of a dancer, can’t count a beat, and have enormous, boat-like feet. “Cultural Rhythms” just does that to you; it makes you want to sing along...