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...Massachusetts State House. The bill seems extraordinarily mundane to most casual observers: It seeks to regulate companies that store the belongings of those who are evicted from their homes, prohibiting arbitrary fees and holding the companies liable for damaged property. But what I remember about it is emphatically not mundane??I couldn’t tell you about the details of the bill or the facts and figures that comprised the argument for it, but I could vividly recount to you the stories of two women I met named Rosemary and Margaret, whose belongings were all but destroyed...
...crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams’ last pictures, an aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange that evokes the powerful feeling of discovering something new and beautiful in the mundane??much like earlier close-ups of ferns and lichen.Despite the variety of subjects on display, Adams’ style doesn’t change much after the first gallery. Everything is “straight”; printed on glossy paper, fore- and background are in focus...
...Patrick “Pat” Noonan ’03 has been waiting all his life to come this close to death. While many of his classmates opted for more mundane??and less life-threatening—wishes, Noonan’s fantasy was to be dumped from a small jet some 10,000 feet...