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When Sidney Verba ’53 started out as director of Harvard University Library (HUL) more than 20 years ago, the school’s collections were organized in a card catalog in the basement of Widener. Now, as Verba prepares to retire, a search for books in any of the 90 University libraries is a click away via the online HOLLIS catalog...
...summer long,” even though she asked him not to contact her. A little more than a week ago, according to the police report, Crowne forced his way into her room, reportedly telling her that he had hid in her House’s basement “until 4 a.m. the night before, with the intention of trying to catch her come home with another...
...with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed a bank last December to pay off his online-gambling debts. More rarely, a kid can end up with a winning hand. Such was Jeff's case. He parlayed his basement game skills into a brief obsession with online poker, which culminated in his winning a $1.1 million poker tournament in Monte Carlo this March...
...doomed to get our news from some acned 12-year-old in his parents' basement recycling rumors from the Internet echo chamber? Not necessarily. The fact that people won't pay for news on the Internet isn't as devastating for the old medium as it seems. People don't pay for their news in traditional newspapers: they pay for the paper, which typically costs the company more than it charges for the finished product. So in theory, giving away the news without the paper looks like a good deal for newspapers, if they can keep the advertising...
...those who have said we can’t succeed here, we ask that you consider our mission and goals and come down to Candaday B basement before prejudging and dismissing our efforts. We will not be a “dark basement office with a bunch of pamphlets” as was cynically suggested earlier this year. We will, like every organization at Harvard, be the sum total of those who take part in our programs, offer us feedback, and join in our effort to create community...