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Library Awareness Program sounds like a high-minded effort to get kids to check out Huckleberry Finn. Actually, it is an FBI counterespionage effort. In a 33-page report issued last week, the bureau declared that stacks of the United Nations' Dag Hammarskjold Library, the New York City Public Library and the Library of Congress, among others, are haunted by Soviet agents who snitch sensitive research. Spies also prowl libraries to spot recruits -- such as the Queens College student approached in New York City by Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet diplomat who was arrested in 1986 and exchanged for Journalist Nicholas...
...consequence of Salinger's evasions is that he has become as famous for defending his privacy against nosy admirers and journalists as he is for writing The Catcher in the Rye (1951), the Huckleberry Finn of the Silent Generation. Salinger's last published story, Hapworth 16, 1924, appeared in The New Yorker in 1965, twelve years after he withdrew to 90 wooded acres in Cornish, N.H. He has been generally successful in protecting his solitude. But because he refuses to collaborate in the making of his own legend ("Because I might get to believe it," he told an inquirer years...
...shame to be stuck in [one's] own corner and not know what else is going on," says Alice Finn '84, a Law School student and the current chair of the council...
...wanted to rent Mem Hall [for a dance], but we couldn't, because no one school could take responsibility for the party," says Finn, who is in her fourth-year year in the Law School's Fletcher program...
Schaefer and Finn will meet with Bok later this month to discuss obtaining a faculty advisor and to ask Bok's opinion of what GAPSC's role in the University should be in the future...