Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operation, designed to apprehend a person destroying books in the stacks, included television cameras hidden in hollowed-out books as well as a 24-hour undercover detail of five police officers...
Harvard police officials were scheduled to disconnect the closed-circuit television network by early this week, and the undercover detail was canceled during the summer of 1990, according to Sgt. Lawrence J. Fennelly...
Several police officers and library employees familiar with the investigation say it was unsuccessful because the operation was too conspicuous and possible suspects knew about the undercover detail and hidden cameras...
While the bright facade of Angkor Wat is a welcome change from the grim, mold-covered exteriors of the other temples, the procedure is controversial. Says a foreign archaeologist at Angkor: "Initially, the Indians were very careless. Much of the detail in the carving has been lost." But on balance, there is less criticism of the Indian efforts now than a few years ago. Says Pich Keo, director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh: "At least they came here and worked when no one else would come...
...second half of the biography, which details Trott's movement into the resistance, provides a much more compelling picture than the first half of the book. MacDonogh's eye for detail, which obscures Trott's pre-war life, helps to illuminate the inner workings of the Kreisau resistance circle, which planned out a blueprint for post-war Germany...