Word: fixes
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Twelve months ago, Harvard College students elected John S. Haddock ’07 to be president of the Undergraduate Council (UC) for 2006. Haddock’s promise to “fix the UC” propelled him to an almost messianic status and a landslide victory. Yet today, students are no more enthusiastic about the UC than they were a year ago. And it’s not because he broke his promise...
...When I got home, I had to adjust them in Photoshop Elements. If I make the same blunder on the D40, I could lighten up the shots right on the camera, which saves the edited image as a separate file, in case you don't like the fix. This is helpful not just when you're clumsy, as I was, but when you say, shoot in low light and want to edit out the yellowish cast that always appears, or if you shoot something wide and think it would look better cropped...
...crop of UC candidates focusing on increased advocacy and student services rather than on overhauling the council itself, UC President John S. Haddock ’07 and Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 appear to have fulfilled their own campaign pledge to “fix the UC.” Over the past two semesters, the UC has created a social programming board separate from the council and funded entirely by the College, reducing the size of the council from three to two committees, without decreasing its budget. Free from the obligation to fund social...
...said it wasn't fair to leave her out. The counselor suggested that they make a rule: Whoever had friends over had a right to privacy with them in her bedroom, but if they played in a common area, her stepsister had the right to join in. "This did fix it," Emerling relates. After the child who needed privacy got it, she was more willing to include her stepsister...
...Proliferating Primates Re "Way too Much Monkey Business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue-creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem...