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Fast-forward to the toilet that has not yet been brought to a pristine, hospital white. The years have not been as idyllic as you pictured back during that blissful March afternoon (or December evening for others among us). That megalomaniacal rush, that untouchable feeling of self-worth, has vanished. Perhaps it’s tainted, diminished, or even forgotten. Harvard students have been accustomed to being the best, so some might regard that relegation to a mere dorm porter to be a tough pill to swallow...
...Walter Benjamin wrote that, “[Mankind’s] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” He was referring to the mass popularity of the Nazi aesthetic. This modern artistic phenomenon is even worse: There isn’t even any aesthetic pleasure any more. All that these increasingly macabre displays provoke is the temporary fury of the average gent and the viewer’s cheap satisfaction that at least there is someone in the world more senseless, base...
...more nuanced picture of Wright-especially the good works done by Wright's church, the hundreds of lives saved and enriched by the church's social ministry, which, if Saint Peter actually does sit on a cloud with an account book, will surely prove more important than Wright's self-absorbed lurches into hateful speech...
...Wright to condemn white America but it was "blaming the victim" to criticize the antisocial behavior-the crime and family disintegration-going on in the black community. When Obama-the avatar of a new generation of progressives-stepped away from Wright, he stepped away from 40 years of liberal self-laceration...
...peacekeepers. The southern, primarily Greek part of the island joined the European Union in 2004; the northern, mainly Turkish part has been an international pariah since 1974, when Turkish forces invaded the country after Greece's then ruling military junta vowed to annex the island. Only Turkey recognizes the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Greek Cypriots refer to it as "occupied territory." The North has just one extradition treaty (with Turkey), and scant police and prosecutorial cooperation with the outside world. "It's a legal black hole," says one Greek Cypriot official...