"It's a sheer drop, so if it had fallen down I would imagine it would have been injured, but it wasn't, " he said.

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If the board capitulates to this top-down ultimatum, it ought to disband, drop the pretense of outside supervision, and turn the whole place over to the faculty that really runs it.

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If you really like one effect and you want it applied to all of your photos, a drop-down menu lets you choose it for automatic post processing, instantly applying, say, the color-saturated "More Cowbell" effect to each shot.

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