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...moved to a nonpolice job in the law library. But in the end, her persistence was rewarded. Although she was unaware of it, an agreement to call in the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI had been violated. In August, after Librarian of Congress James J. Billington received a harsh letter from Mack, he initiated an in-house investigation, acknowledging that there may have been security lapses at the country's largest and most valuable collection of books and documents. He also suspended the termination proceedings against Maceda. And last Friday, he announced a reorganization among the library...
...afscme local 2477, the union representing some library workers, the Library of Congress is "an agency that can only be described as out of control." Says a congressional staff member familiar with the problems: "In terms of higher profile issues like the National Digital Library...and library exhibitions, James Billington has had tremendous success...But he is the captain of that ship, and the captain is ultimately responsible. Questions have been raised in every aspect of management. How could that have escaped his attention?" Billington insists that he is serious about cleaning up the stacks. "The aim has always been...
These passages come from Zhirinovsky's autobiography, The Last Thrust to the South, a book that James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf." In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan...
...book, which historian James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf," recounts in minute detail the slights -- both real and imagined -- that made Zhirinovsky's Kazakhstan childhood an unrelenting horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled...
...singular glimpse of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over court decisions on abortion and homosexual rights. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, speaking for a majority of the Justices, denounced the Library of Congress for making the material available, claiming it damages the court's "long tradition of confidentiality." But Librarian James Billington said he was simply carrying out Marshall's wishes...