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...Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 headed to the capital last week to talk about how the United States should change its strategy for combating AIDS...
Others jumped up to subdue him. Women screamed; children began to cry. Eight men eventually wrestled the 6-ft., 190-lb. Burton to the floor. "It is over," a man told him, yelling obscenities. "You are not getting up." But the mob may have got carried away. Dean Harvey, who was sitting in the third row with his wife and 11-month-old daughter, says a burly man jumped repeatedly onto Burton's chest. "You've got the guy subdued, what more do you want?" Harvey says he told the man, who jumped twice more before stopping. Harvey's account...
...Miles Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House; 405 pages; $24.95) is the fleshed-out version of an article Harvey published in Outside magazine in June 1997. His topic then was a man named Gilbert Bland who had made a career in crime out of visiting major U.S. libraries and cutting maps out of valuable old books in order to sell these stolen treasures to unscrupulous collectors. Harvey's topic now has expanded to include accounts of how he researched and wrote both the original magazine piece and the subsequent book...
...result is a leisurely, meandering journey from which the map-thief disappears for long, long stretches. Instead, Harvey relates his own fascination with cartography and reveals that as a child, he had an uncommonly keen sense of direction. Famous mapmakers of the past are resurrected and given thumbnail biographies. The sequential digressions are occasionally diverting, but some readers, trying to maintain a grip on the story's thread, may conclude, alas, that magazine editors serve a purpose...
Acting Dean of the Institute Mary Maples Dunn received "explicit approval" from Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 for the use of the name, said Radcliffe spokesperson Tara Arden Smith...