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...That's the day the euro is scheduled to be introduced for retail purchases. The transition to the new currency will surely go smoothly, though there is the potential for at least minor confusion and delay. Only after you spend some time examining the photograph do you realize that it's a gently absurd, tongue-in-cheek version of what could go wrong. But of course, spending time chuckling over this image is the whole point. At the bottom are the words "On Europe. On Time." Yes, that Time. Welcome to our new advertising campaign. The bakery scene...
...students, we lack perspective: in my time here, the rampant issues have been randomization, the withering away of Radcliffe, the anti-sweatshop campaign and now the living wage. The year before I arrived, a rally to save the Phillips Brooks House Association drew many hundreds—the majestic photograph sits in PBH now, where, just as those people feared, the administration’s Assistant Dean for Public Service now has her office. The House Masters of the pre-randomization era have left; only a handful of people on the entire campus lived in the Houses in the time...
...eastern European subjects, on the other hand, appear less packaged and less burdened with notions of what the finished photograph should look like. All of the photographs capture a certain charming naiveté and vulnerability, characteristic of those on the cusp of maturity...
...first photograph shows a tiny girl with a blank, almost intrepid stare ripe with meaning and emotion. The subsequent portraits show Almerisa slowly shedding both the exterior trappings of her homeland and of childhood. In the last photograph, she is coyishly defiant, slouching slightly on the chair with her legs apart and a very knowing expression on her face. She no longer looks the part of a refugee, and she is no longer a child...
...intelligence work can be done without putting Americans in harm's way. The Pentagon has a constellation of spy satellites that can photograph and listen in to many sites of interest to U.S. spooks. U.S. submarines, safely lurking beneath the South China Sea and other seas bordering countries of interest to Washington, can suck in a plethora of communications and other militarily significant transmissions...