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...several busts of Longfellow, which serve as the central pieces of the exhibit. Despite her African and American heritage, Lewis chose to work in the distinctly European genre of neoclassical sculpture, a fact that the exhibit tries to play up. Similarly, a marginalized artist's interest in a patriarchal icon like Longfellow is intended to serve as a metaphor for the difficulty of communication between members of a society polarized by racial and gender issues. In the grand scheme of "Images and Identities," Edmonia Lewis is seen not as an artist, but as a symbol. The subtle condescension towards Lewis...
Ensconced as a national icon of exhaustion, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine scheduled to hit newsstands today...
...testimony from Nicole Brown Simpson's sister Denise. Last weekend, jurors lived in close quarters with dramatic memories of Denise's ragged anger. Her agitated testimony offered a tympany of accusations that struck blow after blow at the base of O.J. Simpson's carefully wrought image as a celebrity icon, athletic role model and loving husband. By the time she stepped from the stand, she left behind her the overwhelming impression that it had been a very bad week for the defense...
...much of Eastern Europe it is Jews themselves who need to investigate their heritage. In Moscow, Maureen Greenwood, a project coordinator for an American Jewish human-rights organization, described a U.S. rabbi's shock upon finding a Russian Orthodox icon in a Jewish family's living room. ``The reason,'' says Greenwood, ``is that all religion was so repressed. Jews and Christians were all in the same boat. People simply want to satisfy their religious longings...
...early 1980s -- before the Internet became a cultural icon -- students at Carnegie Mellon University wired photosensors to the indicator lights on a Coke machine, programmed a computer to count the cans as they were dispensed, and connected the whole contraption to the network. By typing the command finger coke cs.cmu.edu, anybody with an Internet account at Carnegie Mellon -- or anywhere else -- could tell at a glance how many cans were left...