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...lawyer from Harvard's Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO) will defend the suspect in a crime involving Harvard-the attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library. The trial begins Wednesday in Third District Court...
Politics and government are simply inconceivable without the ubiquitous presence of rumor; it is a fixture of every state polity. In the form of trial balloons, rumors are deliberately lofted to survey popular sentiment. Before Gutenberg, word of mouth constituted man's principal means for exchanging knowledge, and it would be difficult to prove that modern instruments of communication have improved things much. If legend and myth are solidified rumor, so may be the printed picture and word-secondhand hearsay that is susceptible to the same kind of distortion that rumor undergoes in its journey from one willing...
...bible theft also reminded us that increased precautions were necessary," DeGennaro said. Four fights which will remain on at night are being installed in the court area around the Widener room where the Gutenberg Bible is stored...
...attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible in August and the increase of fires in university libraries across the country have caused Widener Library officials to tighten their security measures...
DeGiannaro said that the bible, one of the still-existing 47 printed by Johann Gutenberg in 1455 was uninsured. Harvard has a general policy of covering the loss of valuable property with its own funds...