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This slide show at the New York Times shows the immediacy of Capa’s work, and explains why this is a huge find in the world of photography. I’ve always been drawn to photojournalism and street photography, less to the more obviously contrived fashion and fine art. Capa’s work is important, and not among my favorites, but deserves its high esteem. It will be interesting to see if the negatives resolve the questions about The Falling Soldier.

Bankrate posted a month-by-month, what-to-do financial aid timeline for high school seniors. We’re mostly on time, it seems, so that’s good. Will’s been accepted in one of the main schools he’s chosen; the others have later deadlines so we’ll see.

And now that it’s 2008 (and a belated Happy New Year to you, interwebs), we need to get cracking on the FAFSA.