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...have a friend take a picture of you extending dual middle fingers to all those cleverly chanting, “Who’s your daddy?” You resign yourself to being the one unsmiling person in every photograph someone will take of Harvard Square on the night of Wednesday, October 21st. (You feel no such anger towards those who dumbly started the chant “Four more games” as opposed to “Four more wins,” though...
...then the past came back to him. “For Christmas of ’93,” Ellroy explained, “my wife got me a copy of the photograph of me taken on June 22, ’58, the day my mother was killed…I hadn’t thought of that aspect of my mother’s death in years, and there it is in my face...
DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...they are given other tasks: writing letters to the editor, calling talk radio, distributing yard signs. The campaign watches their quotas closely all the while for indications of flagging interest. The reward for a job well done might be the best seats at a Bush rally or a signed photograph from the President...
...it’s the sense of self-satisfaction that blinds us to this, and that prevents us from being more constructive. Copies of the photograph of us on the football field hung, curling, from bulletin boards for years; I suspect that copies of the photograph of Winthrop House arrayed on the footbridge will share a similar fate...