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...week, the press will be doing a lot of close reading of the president’s Aug. 6 intelligence briefing, which includes a warning about “patterns of suspicious activity consistent with preparations for hijackings.…” The AP English definition of tragedy??something that begins in prosperity and ends in adversity—will come in handy when readers are deciding whether to laugh...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Parts of Speech | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...thirty-second spot dubbed “Safer, Stronger” shows off the greatest number of images from Sept. 11. Behind text reading, “Then...a day of tragedy?? and a sound of sirens in the background, the ad shows an American flag flying in front of the World Trade Center rubble. The image fades into two shots. On the left, a man hoists an American flag, while on the right four firefighters carry a body, draped in another flag. Just before the new slogan, “A test for all Americans...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The 9/11 President | 3/10/2004 | See Source »

With the Villa i Tatti, Harvard is serving as caretaker of cultural and personal legacy: paintings, books, buildings and grounds that epitomize their respective eras and locales. It would be a tragedy??not just to Renaissance scholars, but to human culture—to let them tarnish. Though the occasional guided tour may be the closest most people will get to Berenson’s paintings—a regrettable decision, but one necessary to keep the fragile art and books safe—the Villa frequently funds top-notch restorations of the canvases on its walls. These...

Author: By J. hale Russell, | Title: Up at the Villa | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

...tragedy??s aftermath, Americans came to better appreciate the link between a building and its community—how an architectural structure come to mean much more than the sum of its building blocks, Macaulay says. Mosque delves into this relationship between building and community by presenting an in-depth look at a socially important architectural structure located halfway around the world...

Author: By Jackeline Montalvo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deconstructing the Mosque | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...attacks; the images are digitally scanned, reprinted and hung. Anyone can order a printed copy of any image for $25, with profits being donated to relief efforts. The layout of the gallery space reflects the grassroots nature of the project, a truly authentic and original response to a tragedy??photos hang from clotheslines around the room, while the back of the one-room gallery serves as “office” and production room, complete with printers and scanners...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Apple Art | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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