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...plunge through the trapdoor of the gallows, al-Rubaie’s prediction that Saddam’s death would be a unifying event for Iraq—as it should have been—rings hollow. Saddam’s status as one of this and last century??s most ruthless tyrants has not been brought into question, nor should it ever. Instead, al-Rubaie’s prediction seems laughable because Saddam’s execution was overrun by the endless sectarian violence that has come to dominate this new page in Iraqi history, which...
...week the world mourns the death of one of the twentieth century??s most notorious leaders—General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Pinochet rose to power in 1973 via a violent coup d’état and his tenure would eventually witness the deaths of over 3000 of his political enemies. He overthrew a democratically elected government, only to institute a ruthless totalitarian regime bathed in blood. He was a criminal, murderer, and thief—or so the headlines ubiquitous in the mainstream media would have us believe. Pinochet, however, is a man misunderstood...
...loss,” Roll said. He considers Borges—who held the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry at Harvard in the late 1960s—to be the 20th century??s most influential writer, and “Pierre Menard” its finest short story...
...book, “My Last Sigh,” lacks autobiographical detail and does not shed much light on his works. Instead, Bunuel provides readers with a kaleidoscope rendition of the bohemian world of the 20th century??s great artistic minds. He freely mixes fact with fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown...
...inaugural lecture in the series “Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century,” yesterday afternoon. Professor of Archaeology at York University Martin Carver delivered a speech entitled “Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political Weathervane of the Seventh Century?? to a crowd of nearly 100 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies. According to Harvard’s Medieval Studies committee member and Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick, the lecture was an opportunity for Harvard to further cultivate its medieval...