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...moment the communists put it up. On a trip to West Berlin in 1978, he was told the story of Peter Fechter, an East German youth who had been killed trying to crawl over the Wall in 1962. The authorities left Fechter unattended for nearly an hour while he bled to death. "Reagan just gritted his teeth," says Peter Hannaford, a longtime aide who was with him in Berlin. "You could tell from the set of his jaw and his look that ... he was very, very determined that this was something that...
...staff increases in FAS over the last six years have been roughly equivalent to the size of the entire Harvard College Library staff. The director of the Harvard University Library system, Robert C. Darnton ’60, even said that the libraries are “being bled to death.” Acquisition rates have fallen precipitously as the prices of published material and periodicals have rapidly increased, and the Harvard College Library lost 100 staff positions this past summer...
Even before the financial crisis hit the University last fall, the library system had struggled to find the necessary resources to sustain desired acquisition rates, according to Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton ’60, who said that the libraries are “being bled to death.” Acquisitions fell precipitously last year, a problem compounded by the rising costs of periodicals and a long period of declining resources at Harvard, he said...
...kitchen knife he had smuggled into court and stabbed her at least 16 times. Her husband, Elwy Okaz, 32, was also repeatedly stabbed before being shot by a police officer who mistook him for el-Sherbini's attacker. El-Sherbini, who was three months pregnant at the time, bled to death in front of the couple's 3-year...
...looks up to Chelsea and finds the self he never managed to become. She was a source of hope when he was bitter, of perspective when he was self-pitying. Clinton liked doing what he was good at but marvels over Chelsea's devotion to ballet, how her feet bled after practice, how she worked hard at it because she loved it regardless of how good she was at it. "I've always admired that," Clinton says. "I've wondered whether I could ever stick with something for its own sake." He was one to gather laurels; she preferred...