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...audience at the original London show, the British construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided he wanted a bit of Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess. The entire scheme is an essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated...
...curve, never afraid to experiment with new technologies and inspirations to our evolving library system. From expanding our library’s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven to be a genuine freethinker and pioneer. According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, Verba is preparing to retire, saying he wants to spend more time doing research. He will step down at the end of the academic year, after being first appointed...
...obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal is to eventually make all public-domain works available online alongside excerpts from copyrighted material with the appropriate permissions. The result, no doubt, will be a triumph for information flow that democratizes access to knowledge in an unprecedented...
Today, Google Book Search project is still in beta testing, but already 10,000 public domain books are indexed and available in search results; many full texts are available via PDF download. These are small steps on the way to the eventual goal of creating a comprehensive virtual catalog of all books in all languages. Verba had that ambition when he served as director of HUL, and we hope that his dream will be realized in his golden years, after a monumental tenure as an advocate and pacesetter for academia...
...Western world today, we are experiencing a wave of drastic new enlightenment ? of secularization," Pope Benedict XVI said recently. "It is becoming more difficult to believe." But in parts of Eastern Europe, religious politicians are pushing back, demanding that traditional beliefs be taken seriously in the political domain. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the new Polish Prime Minister from the ardently pro-Catholic Law and Justice Party, prefers Catholic pilgrimages to football games. The government is proposing a new constitution that will begin "In the name of God Almighty" and describe Polish independence as a "gift from God." Still, however much Christians...