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...that poetry and politics have nothing to do with one another,” he said. If homogenizing connotations no longer make the “melting pot” an apt metaphor for cultural assimilation, Truong Tran’s condensed prosody—written as blocks of text without capitalization or punctuation—attempted to capture the mutability of possible futures and the importance of finding an individual voice in a new language: “my mother says I would have been married in saigon settled with two children as for that man in the picture...
...technology also conferred a shroud of privacy amid the spectacle. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith noted seeing students silently text-messaging before the Tuesday memorial service. "It feels like there is an undercurrent of information being passed that doesn't reach to our level but is remaining within the Virginia Tech family," he said...
...developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough yet terrifically brief 200-page overview. If only more classroom text writers would take a page out of Norton’s book...
...very far. Cho's lethal outburst, by all accounts, may have been simmering for months, if not years. In 2005, after Cho sent harassing messages to two female students, a Virginia court ruled him a danger to himself and others. His package of angry, self-pitying videos, stills and text, sent to NBC News on the day of the killings, probably took days to prepare...
...becomes arbitrary once we are reminded that no person or place is immune to real tragedy. At Harvard, like at other campuses across the country, students have been trying to fathom the horror of watching a fellow student stepping into a classroom and brandish a gun, or receiving a text message that a friend was shot. Such efforts have proven futile. All we can do is send our thoughts and prayers to our peers in Blacksburg and hope that Virginia Tech’s recovery from these grimmest of circumstances will heal our faith in humanity, which the shootings...