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...Harvard is a pretty exasperating institution to work with," says Carney Gavin, the museum's current curator. "It's like dealing with the Catholic Church, or the U.S. Government." Gavin arrived here in the late 1960s as a doctoral candidate in Syrio-Palestinian archaeology and took an immediate interest in the large and dusty collection of artifacts he found locked away in the basement at 6 Divinity Ave. That jumble of clay figurines and broken pottery on plywood shelves was the Harvard Semitic Museum: nearly 10,000 objects tucked into 3467 square feet of space. Trying to locate anything...
...human side of his museum's roller-coaster history means a great deal to Carney Gavin. A bluff, bulky, gigantically affable man, he makes friends--and remembers their names--with instinctive ease. He saw that his cause carried little weight among the administrators: he had no money. So Gavin, a practicing Catholic priest, turned to his last resource: people. He marshalled a vast army of eager volunteers out of thin air, and by the mid-'70s, hundreds of area professionals and students were helping him put his museum back together again. He once even piled the entire Harvard football team...
Chicago came right back in the top of the seventh with its third run Almon beat a throw by Carney Lansford for his second hit of the game, and after Leflore took first on a force out and stole second. Tony Bernazard doubled him home...
...stranger-than-fiction stories are in hot Hollywood demand at the moment, and Golden has become the little guy's negotiatrix nonpareil. So far she has represented ten clients and has turned away many more. This week CBS will air one of her projects, The Ordeal of Bill Carney, a two-hour movie about a quadriplegic who made legal history in 1979 when the California Supreme Court ruled that his handicap did not disqualify him from having custody of two young sons. Carney became Golden's first "real life rights" client. The attorney who won the custody case...
Michael T. Carney Meaford...