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...late Sir James Goldsmith and the husband of Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan, tried to tell the Western media about the terrible misery in the refugee camps where so many Afghans are forced to live. Nobody was interested. But they were very keen on a photo-shoot of beautiful, blond Jemima in her Pakistani clothes...
...case, the technique speaks for itself-besides, it isn't really her point to display technical chops. In fact, she strips the medium down to its bear minimum, taking it clearly out of the region of interest. Friends take the pictures with point and shoot cameras-the digit date and time display attest to that--and they are developed in normal dimensions, with normal coloring and no framing, reflecting Lee's wish that these look like photographs which anyone could take. She seems to have an important statement that shouldn't be lost for the beauty or the virtuoso...
...become “merit-based.” More seriously, it’s led to the notoriously haughty induction process at some of Harvard’s student organizations. At the Crimson, potential execs have to face an annual torture called “The Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze,” a series of meals and coffees with assorted Crimson higher-ups. The final week consists of interviews in front of a semi-circle firing squad...
...deal, and the heads of the commission were friendly about it, assuring veterans that it was just a formality. But I didn’t bother answering the questions. I spent the first week of school getting rejected from seminars; I have the Crimson Turkey Shoot to look forward to in November. At this point, I don’t think I want to belong to any more clubs that could reject me as a member...
...nearly 80% of Americans support, according to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week. Now fewer than 100 federal air marshals randomly travel on a very select number of domestic and international routes, down from a peak of more than 1,000 in the early 1970s, before concerns about airborne shoot-outs effectively sank the program. Some pilots are suggesting that an even better deterrent would be to have a uniformed security officer in the jump seat next to the cockpit...