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...This is a monumental settlement that's at stake, and for the government to show this kind of attention is heartening," says Lee Van Orsdel, dean of university libraries at Grand Valley State University. "The increased scrutiny on the part of the DOJ tells us that our concerns are resonating far beyond the library community," concurs Corey Williams, associate director in the office of government relations at the American Library Association. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...think the publishing industry is under great stress trying to figure out how to operate in a world where it's very easy to make copies of things and to distribute copies of things - which is exactly the problem that the music industry faced," says Paul Courant, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan...
...your cover story, you name Michelle Obama "one of the most professionally accomplished First Ladies ever." Yet by failing to detail her vocational accomplishments (lawyer, associate dean at the University of Chicago, senior executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center), you neglect to define her as something other than "Mom in Chief." That is a sacrifice of identity indeed. Courtney Sender, MONTVALE...
When she attended her first Titanic Historical Society convention, in 1988, Millvina Dean, who died May 31 at 97, had never flown in a plane or stayed in a hotel. But her quiet life turned into one of celebrity, as she was soon traveling the world to speak about surviving the Titanic disaster as an infant. Fans and reporters flocked to her bungalow in Britain's New Forest for tea and homemade sloe gin. They quickly discovered she was full of humor, charm and vitality--qualities that made her an interviewer's dream...
...sudden fame was a lifetime away from the dark hours she and her mother had spent in a crowded lifeboat in the North Atlantic after the Titanic sank in 1912. Dean's 2-year-old brother was discovered aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and the family--minus Dean's father, who drowned--returned safely to England. They were fortunate. Most of the children traveling in third class died...