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Stodgy traditionalists make happy habit of lamenting the place of the Western canon in college curricula. How odd, they say, that Western civilization's leading educational institutions produce men and women largely unfamiliar with, and hence unsuited to maintain, the intellectual patrimony they will inevitably inherit...
What about the camera? Right now, Canon and Sony have got the DV camcorder market sewed up. Each has a choice of cameras in the high-, medium- and low-price range. Expect to pay up to $4,199 and to get what you pay for. Real professional quality means a camera with three CCDs--that is, three separate prisms to capture red, green and blue light--and a shotgun microphone, like the one boasted by the $2,500 Canon GL-1. But, hey, who said anything about professional quality? This is the Blair Witch era, after all. Grain is chic...
...idea of student independence. Home-schooled students already miss out on a great deal of social interaction and diversity during their middle and high school years; imagine the level of isolation PHC's environment will create. Undergraduates may learn a great deal about the liberal arts and the Western canon; they may even learn a great deal about the workings of Congress, but they will graduate without ever having lived independent of the direct and strict influence of their parents and other like-minded adults...
...Scotsman also reports that a Glasgow man named Eden Strang is charged with attempted murder for the incident. And the church's canon is named John Lennon...
...That cute little APS camera from Canon just got cuter thanks to its new waterproof design. Called the Sport Utility Elph, the spunky, 8-oz. green-and-silver camera is the smallest and lightest of its kind. Some may balk at the $270 price and the costlier APS film, but since the Elph line outsells APS rivals 3 to 1, the Sport will likely make a splash...