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...Michael Rosenbaum), who will someday become Superman's enemy but here, for now, is a lonely if cynical rich kid who wants to be Clark's friend. One of the Tick's cronies is the randy, obnoxious Captain Liberty (Liz Vassey), a literally statuesque crime fighter who carries a torch and an attitude. We'll see if today's audience can handle a complex villain or a heroine who tweaks a star-spangled symbol...
...suppose that Harvard, the personified “torch of truth,” will smoke the evildoers out of their caves with our good deeds and commitment to public service at home, while our professors grab broomsticks to shoot at Osama with lightning bolts...
With the President of the United States calling bin Laden “the Evil One,” and the president of our university reinvoking the metaphor of Harvard as the “Torch of Truth,” we must ask ourselves, to what end do these metaphors serve? When the media renames the events of Sept. 11 a second “Day of Infamy,” what is the effect on our thoughts and discourse...
...deepening our understanding of the issues we will all be facing in the near future. Summers’ speech provides a prime example. By framing his otherwise provocative vision of Harvard as a “global University” immediately after introducing it as the “Torch of Truth,” Summers takes something away from his message. Should our professors “whisper in the ear of a President,” if they so choose? Absolutely. Should they continue “establishing legal foundations for civil society in distant lands...
...doing my best to carry on [Vichniac’s] torch,” Bernstein said...