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...asked Jeanine why she quit her job at the air base. She said, "After Karen died, I couldn't function. I couldn't handle big things. I lost my concentration. In a way, I dreaded seeing the memorial. Yet when it opened, it took me by total surprise. I never thought that I could be happy again. Then I walked in, and suddenly I felt good...
...Bill Maggs slides behind the wheel of his Audi S4, his Palm is at work answering the critical question of the morning: Route 280 or 101? The PDA's wireless Etak Traffic Touch function surveys competing routes from his San Francisco home to his Silicon Valley office and beams down constantly updated reports on which one is less clogged. En route, Maggs is a flurry of wireless connectivity. He chats on his Motorola cell phone and answers e-mail on his Internet-enabled Palm. If he likes a song he hears on the radio, he can order it on Amazon...
...Robert Frank, William Klein and Diane Arbus and wondering whether their saturnine styles could be fitted to the warmer aims of documentary photography. Arbus, especially, didn't seem to take much interest in the people in her pictures for themselves. What she cared about was how they could function as emblems of the various beasts within us. Mark is not such a remote operator. She plainly does care about the struggling families and strenuously upbeat old people she has photographed. But if she learned a lot from the work of compassionate photo essayists like W. Eugene Smith, she has never...
According to John B. Fox '59, the Secretary of the Faculty, that distance is a function of the job, and not a function of the person who holds...
...Whether or not the administration accepts the results is probably going to be a function of the degree to which they agree with them," he says...