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...Seven Japanese women take turns posing at the statue??s base. One woman squints at the tiny screen of her digital camera, no doubt trying to fit the top of Mr. Harvard’s head in the frame. Robin and Todd, a young couple from San Diego, say that they came to Harvard to see the historic architecture. But what does Robin think about Harvard’s other sights—namely, its male population? Before she can answer, Todd chimes in with “Hey, you can’t have...
...size. “I went to university, but ours are small—one building only,” says José, an engineer. Jimmy, a tall, hearty man in a blue windbreaker and his family have come all the way from Colorado. Have they heard about the statue??s dirty secret? “Don’t they, um, defecate on it?” his wife Cheryl offers timidly...
From his perch beneath the 17-foot American flag draped from University Hall, John Harvard might never have known that his country was again at war. On only one occasion this year were the statue??s thousands of daily passers-by confronted with the kind of protests common just 35 years ago, when violence escalated in Vietnam and calls for university reform remained unanswered. Although much has changed since students risked their college draft exemptions to stop war, this year’s unnerving quiet had little to do with distaste for protest...
...images of impassioned Iraqis taking sledgehammers to a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad flooded the airwaves on Wednesday. Meanwhile, headlines worldwide proclaimed that Hussein’s Baghdad had fallen. But the statue??s destruction—which U.S. marines, using a cable fixed to a tank, eventually helped to orchestrate—hardly indicates the dawning of a new age of democracy. An Iraqi reenactment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was not. As British journalist James Bays told the Washington Post, “Total control has been replaced by sheer anarchy...
While some RUS members criticized the statue??which was erected in Tercentenary Theater by members of the men’s crew team on Feb. 11—others were less sure about its inappropriateness...