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...know we need to adapt our tools and search interface...[to] what people are familiar with,” Donovan says. To this end, HUL introduced an extension for the Internet browser Firefox this spring that allows users to right-click on selected text on any Web site and search it through the online HOLLIS library catalog or the Google Scholar search engine...
With the various Republican presidential hopefuls pulling the party in different directions, Kwong is confident of the party’s ability to adapt and embrace multiple conservative perspectives...
...half a million soldiers and civilians were killed in the war with Iran in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands were massacred on Saddam Hussein's orders in the 1990s, and tens of thousands have died in the Shi'ite-Sunni sectarian carnage in the past two years - learns to adapt its mourning traditions to its circumstances. During the war with Iran, Saddam barred newspapers from publishing wake notices; he worried that the sheer numbers of such notices would advertise just how badly his ill-judged war was going and demoralize his subjects. (Ironically, the current Iraqi government has taken...
...Faculty’s lack of enthusiasm is also disconcerting because the ostensible purpose of the curricular review was to reinvigorate the curriculum and to create new classes. Faced with this uninspiring "new" rubric, faculty will be more likely to simply adapt their Core course to the new rubric, creating Core version...
...screen." Trying to translate one language to another in the course of a film has challenges and limitations that apply to dubbing as well as subtitling - unlike literature which has the safety net of footnotes, film subtitlers have to make it work in the moment, all while trying to adapt wordplay and cultural references. "Characters in Boyz in the Hood talked about Amos n' Andy," says Béhar. "Well, in France that wouldn't mean anything. I went with Laurel and Hardy, but of course all the racial and political significance was gone. Sixteen years later, I'm still...