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...destruction of cultural capital in the name of war is, of course, nothing new. In perhaps the most famous example, a Venetian cannonball destroyed a large section of the Athenian Parthenon in 1687 after the besieged Turks had turned it into a powder magazine. Victorious forces often purposefully destroy cultural icons and monuments in order to demoralize the conquered, highlighting the difference between cultural and political capital—I am sure nobody at the U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization cried as the U.S. Marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. Other...
...have happened this year to Harvard and other schools around the Ivy League. In an attempt to help you reach this state of nirvana, I’m going to share with you some of the sound bytes and references from my experience in a veritable “Section Twilight Zone...
...been reading the section faithfully since age nine, but it was only recently that my Wedding Mockery became a blood sport. Perhaps some background is necessary here. I’m from Yonkers, New York, which one eloquent Urban Dictionary contributor correctly defined as a “shithole north of NYC.” Sometimes referred to as the “sixth borough” or the “backyard of the Bronx,” the city suffers from a severe inferiority complex. I think where I live is pretty nice, but I realize the place...
...with every ounce of my being, it’s kind of—I can barely get the words out—nice to think of loving someone that much, of a relationship lasting more than a night or a drunken half-hour. My love of the Styles section is more than nostalgia for New York, although that’s part of it. (I still read Page Six online and can be found lamenting the dearth of black-and-white cookies in the Boston area). It’s also a tenuous belief in true love. I don?...
...October 2003, The New York Times website added a section to its op-ed page featuring editorials from foreign newspapers, particularly those that that deal with American foreign policy. CNN now regularly runs translated clips from the Arab satellite channel al Jazeera. These quiet additions are, in fact, part of a fundamental shift in the way we get information. Thanks to the internet and satellite TV, mass media are no longer geographically limited. Propaganda is propagated beyond national borders on signals that don’t fade as the metropole fades into the distance. We’re all watching...