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...When you are at Harvard you develop a thick skin,” he says. “You sift out the wheat from the chaff and go forward...
After seven sessions, Richmond ended up with hundreds of photographs. But how to separate the photographic wheat from the chaff? “I chose the ones that felt powerful to me,” she explains. Richmond says that because sequence is so important in a book, choosing photos for Overneath was different from choosing them for an exhibition. Trying to decide what order to put the photos in was an even more challenging task. “I made little printouts and carried them around like a deck of cards,” she says...
...supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President of the Crimson and Managing Editor of the soon-to-be-launched New York Sun, gained prominence by publishing Smartertimes.com, a daily critique...
...calendar year most of your stocks have probably wilted. Selling now may seem like admitting defeat just when some of your old favorite shares are starting to show signs of new life. The end of the year, however, is the time when investors traditionally separate the wheat from the chaff with an eye toward both portfolio cleanup and tax savings...
...this kind of glow, for two contradictory reasons. On the one hand, it's too accessible. Its masterpieces and its misfires are readily apparent to anyone with a remote; the same people who complain that "there's so much garbage on TV" can remain blissfully unexposed to the chaff that makes up most of the books published, movies screened and records released in a year. And on the other hand, it's too ephemeral. Until recently, TV was divided between a canon of usual-suspects classics--Lucy, Lassie, Archie--and everything else, which lived on only in tape vaults, electromagnetic...