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Digital color correction now allows us to make fine adjustments in Adams' pictures to produce prints with subtleties that weren't possible in his lifetime. But can we be sure that pictures printed after his death give us just the colors he would have wanted? Of course not. He was an exacting man, and there's no way of knowing precisely what shade of gray-green or yellow-beige would have worked best for him or whether he was sure of what it should be until he saw it. He was smart enough to know that pictures are just fictions...
This is something I have never seen before in my time at Harvard (and as Saturday marked the 100th game that I’ve cheered for the crimson and white, I’ve seen quite a lot). Sure, some freshman and their parents filed in during the middle of the first quarter, but no fans for the first minutes of the game was a new low for Harvard. Making matters even worse: this weekend was Homecoming...
...freezing cold waiting for a concert to get cancelled. But this year, the College Events Board has decided not to book a “star” performer for the Harvard-Yale Pep Rally. Fear not, though, pep rally diehards, this year’s event is sure to promise a sufficient amount of disappointment...
...thing, the pep rally will still feature the Harvard cheerleaders, who are sure to impress with a few very difficult cartwheels and toe touches. There also will be some sort of inter-house competition, which will definitely star several over-eager section kids. As the Harvard Band plays the one song it knows (I’m sure you’d recognize the fateful tune), the rally is bound to be a bore—unless, of course, someone gets hurt...
...insurers can't be sure what the various states will do, and neither can liberals. But both sides know that states, like all of us, tend to err on the side of doing nothing...