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For students like Ryan S. Alfred ’05 , forgetting was never a question, however.
Exotic weapons get a lot of attention, but conventional explosives and suicide bombers in pizza parlors, discotheques and shopping malls can spread terror with stunning effectiveness. Fertilizer bombs like the one that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1995 could wreak havoc with bridges...
That's why, among those paid to think about the ultimate horror, the phrase of the moment is not "weapons of mass destruction" but "weapons of mass effect." The planes that flew into the World Trade Center were just such weapons. They were "conventional," in a sense, but designed to...
HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and author of How to Read and Why: "Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, particularly the passage, 'Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.'"
A compelling picture of America, requisite for any so-called American novel, does indeed emerge, but not so much through Franzen’s explorations of sexuality, economic motivations and rewards or mental instabilities as through the Lamberts’ perceptions and reactions to those things. For in the end...