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...anyone who has been clinging to the notion that America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords...
Through content or means of creation, each work in this show integrates this central notion of the fine line between the two traditions of art. The exhibition succeeds in its didactic intentions: It is relevant and easily understandable, but not so obvious as to be shallow. Perhaps its greatest strength is in allowing these paintings—each so different in style, and each powerful enough to stand alone—to come together, to seem connected, to take on new meaning through association...
...Alexis J. Loeb ’02, the experience was not quite as memorable. “I’m not such a fan, which is why I haven’t done it in three years...The image of sophistication and relaxation soon gave way to the notion that my lips were becoming chapped and burned,” Loeb complains...
Kalb said he felt then, and still believes now, that this was not a news story and that the current constant stream of negative reporting about politicians’ personal lives has contributed to the public’s mistrust of the government and inspired the notion the politicians are by nature corrupt...
...before-available letters from Jackie to Macmillan, Leaming argues that Jackie was "one of the most public and political First Ladies yet," despite the fact that her efforts needed to be veiled as "social rather than political." But Leaming doesn't bolster her claims by referring to the commonplace notion that the Kennedy presidency was the first shaped by television, an idea that would have underscored the importance of his wife's mastery of the language of images. Instead, Leaming's focus on detailed accounts of the various (mostly foreign policy) challenges Kennedy faced tends to emphasize how remote Jackie...