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...grown used to touch screens on everything from PDAs to the ticket kiosks at the movie theater. Why not one for the camera? The key is screen size: the N1's roomy 3-in. LCD makes touching, even without a stylus, easy. The interface is well designed. While shooting, you can control flash, shooting mode, file size and more with a tap, and then enter a menu for more options. Immediately after powering it up and shooting a few pictures, I found myself tapping this way and that, like I was the author of the user's manual or something...
...this election. The patterns of succession that guided the Council for the last five years or so have broken down, and with no clear heir to the throne in sight, a crop of relatively inexperienced young politicos are going to try to rewrite the rules. In short, the big ticket is up for grabs, and for the first time in years, there are barely enough UC veterans in the junior class to fill up a ballot. Only seven members of the class of ’07 returned this year, and of them, Winthrop’s John F. Voith...
...last semester, Voith beat out incumbent Epstein last week for the top spot in CLC. Voith worked under Epstein on many of the high-risk, unsuccessful CLC events last semester. CONNOR C. WILSON ’07: Wilson served as campaign manager for last year’s insider/outsider ticket led by Tracy “Ty” Moore ‘06. Wilson placed first in the Adams House race as a write-in candidate this semester, and says he hopes to institute reforms from the inside as a member of FiCom...
...iPod. Variants of the Apple device have commanded over 80 percent of the mp3 player market for years, and the line has cachet above and beyond simple numbers: consider, for example, that just about every raffle on campus with a prize of significant value this year has given ticket-holders or survey-takers the opportunity to win an iPod nano. Even my parents own an iPod. The iPod-ification of America might not have caught us completely by surprise—after all, the iPod has, in every incarnation, been better designed than most of its competition...
...year-old son, but Lane's personal life is famously turbulent. His father was an alcoholic, and his mother suffered from mental illness. He has struggled to find a steady partner. There's a core of insecurity there. Talking about The Odd Couple's record advance ticket sales, Lane can only focus on his fear of the inevitable backlash...