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...used to go to the Classics departmentlibrary and look at the volumes and say gee isthat all there is, but when I want to deal withit, it is very different. The level of detail isso complex it boggles the mind," says Crane, whonever took an undergraduate course in computershere...
...head of the Harvard Computer ClassicsProject (HCCP), Crane, along with graduatestudents and undergraduates, has written exams toallow students and professors to easily search forthe various contexts in which an author uses aparticular word. By calling up on computer everyexample of when an author used a certain word,scholars can have a better grasp of the subtlemeaning for each word...
Last week the liberal watchdog group People for the American Way cautioned the national Bicentennial Commission against Skousen. It argued, in the words of David Crane, a director, "An extremist group, extremist statements and extremist dialogue tend to threaten the heritage of our Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers." Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who has made a point of keeping politics out of the bicentennial proceedings, will be studying the matter...
...mild sunlight over the Seine, in the belated blue of a dying November, the work of grooming the "elephant" for its last incarnation drew to an end. Masons were finishing the limestone slabs on its wide steps up from the Quai Anatole France. On the parapet, a crane solicitously set down an allegorical bronze of Oceania by some 19th century pompier -- a colonial damsel with thick lips, melon breasts and a Tahitian war club, flanked by a kangaroo...
Former Cambridge Councilor Kevin Crane commented that "It'll be an interesting two years, to see what he does down in Washington--we haven't had a freshman Congressman for 34 years." With a Republican President, he said the Speaker's ability to retain Federal aid for the district would be difficult to match...