Word: symbolizations
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Harvard Yard is the quintessential symbol of the Harvard College experience. So when the women of the Class of 1976 came to Cambridge in the fall of 1972, and 200 of them moved their trunks into the Yard instead of the Quad, it was clear a new era had arrived...
...funnel users to Microsoft services. Setting up a Microsoft Hotmail or MSN account to run in the slick Outlook software is a snap; doing it with non-Microsoft providers is a chore. Highlight an address in Word, and you can map it online--using Microsoft Expedia. Type a stock symbol, and you can get a live price--from Microsoft Money Central. You get the idea...
DIED. ALBERTO KORDA, 72, photographer whose image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara immortalized him as a worldwide symbol of revolution; in Paris. Korda's picture The Heroic Guerrilla graced countless T shirts and posters after Guevara's death in 1967. The photographer accepted use of his picture as a protest icon but fought commercial reproductions he felt "dishonored" his subject. DIED. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, actor best known for playing the character Grady in the U.S. TV series Sanford and Son; in Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes...
...Jamil Hamad: Faisal Husseini was a symbol of the Palestinian national movement's determination to keep Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. He represented a tradition and a history of Palestinian pride and struggle. His father was killed in a battle between Israelis and Palestinians in 1948, west of Jerusalem, and had always been hailed as a national hero. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is also his cousin...
...Perhaps some good will come out of all this. Maybe Jenna, despite her apparent distaste for the press, will become a sort of symbol of the idiocy of our drinking laws. Ostensibly Jenna could join ROTC - okay, it would probably be the National Guard - and then be shipped off to fight a UN-sponsored war. When she?s finished fighting for the day, can she have a beer? Sure, if she?s overseas. But not on U.S. soil. It?s an old argument, but it still resonates, once you get over the deep unlikelihood of the idea of Jenna Bush...