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Most people are probably unaware that Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter beginning with the cryptic phrase: “Diir Sir, yi hav transkryb’d iur alfabet.” But this very letter from this founding father, innovator and advocate of spelling reform is on display this month in the Houghton Library’s “Alphabetics,” an exhibition of book arts involving unusual and creative thought about letters...
...saddened by the war in Iraq but support it nonetheless as the only way to dismantle an intolerable global threat. In fact, however, this is precisely the pro-war position. No one on this campus wants war for the sake of war, no matter how strongly they may display their approval of the current campaign...
...ballpoint pens in a box under that desk," Swaffield says abruptly. "I still don't know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously. "I've started messing about with robotics, too," he continues, producing a clockwork cat's skull that skitters across his desk on scary...
Yesterday’s massive student anti-war walk-out was a necessary and productive display of dissent against a highly objectionable war. For Harvard students to leave classes and disrupt standard daily life was a necessary acknowledgement of the U.S. first strike against Iraq; the protest served as important impetus and vehicle for dialogue about the war. While we hope that this action comes to a quick and decisive end, it is incumbent on students at Harvard and across the country to continue to think critically about our nation’s actions, and to share their thoughts through...
...this war, the endgame has become the opening gambit. Instead of pummeling the enemy with an overwhelming display of force and then hunting down their leaders, the U.S. is taking the reverse approach - beginning with a series of bombing raids aimed at taking out the ruling regime. The "decapitation" effort began in the early hours of the morning Baghdad time and was restarted later in the day. The shock and awe campaign, we are told, is still come...