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...shots right on the camera, which saves the edited image as a separate file, in case you don't like the fix. This is helpful not just when you're clumsy, as I was, but when you say, shoot in low light and want to edit out the yellowish cast that always appears, or if you shoot something wide and think it would look better cropped...
They weren't the first designer plush dolls, and they probably won't be the last, but a cast of 15 unattractive, ever evolving characters called Uglydolls?each accompanied by a quirky, amusing narrative?have plopped down at the forefront of the designer-toy movement. The dolls' creators, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, are themselves outsiders in a nearly monopolized corporate toy industry. Their first doll, a snaggle-toothed, apron-donning orange blob named Wage who, the story goes, works at a grocery store and lives for chocolate-chip-cookie dough, was born...
...Looking about, I noticed that many of the Boys on the Bus, the cast of characters from Tim Crouse's lovely book about the 1972 press corps, were in the house - David Broder, Jules Witcover, Hedrick Smith, Carl Leubsdorf. It was Crouse who once described reporters as shy egomaniacs. There was nothing shy about Apple, though, and that was his greatest strength as a journalist. He was the furthest thing from a cynic; he was an utter enthusiast, perpetually amazed and gratified that he'd been allowed to spend his life savoring the feast of public life. "By his standards...
...vision of expanding student freedoms, Hwang says that he would institute a “laissez-faire system,” where undergraduates—not council members—would decide which student groups get UC funding.Hwang says groups would post their grants online, and students would cast their votes for which organizations should receive funding. The UC would then grant funding to groups with the most votes. “The votes [would be] a recommendation, not a constraint,” he says, although the UC would consider those votes “a very strong mandate...
This comes days after top administrators cast aside a recommendation by the Committee on College Life (CCL) to repeal the tax on donations to the Harvard Gift Fund...