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...systems in the academic world, and much of the credit for its continuing success can be attributed to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, the outgoing director of Harvard University Libraries (HUL). Under Verba, HUL has become a much more efficient, user-friendly organization, with the launch of programs like HOLLIS, HUL’s invaluable online search tool. Verba has kept Harvard at the cutting edge of library technology, most notably in recent years through collaboration with Google to digitize Harvard’s collections...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Year in Brief | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...very troubling...but I've declared my intention to make it a priority. The people behind the violence should have the conviction that my government is serious about dealing with their grievances. I have been talking to leaders from that region and am convinced we will succeed. I will launch a comprehensive blueprint that will address the crisis in the Delta once and for all within my first hundred days of taking office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobody's Puppet | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

According to its Prime Minister, Turkey may launch an attack on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, despite likely U.S. opposition. After a bomb killed six people in the capital of Ankara on May 22, many Turkish officials are calling for retaliation against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which they blame for the attack. The PKK, which has been fighting for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 and is based in the mountains of north Iraq, has denied responsibility for the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turkish Move Into Iraq? | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...Turkey's powerful military has frequently indicated its readiness to launch a cross-border operation, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has resisted - until now. Newly under pressure from the secularist army over his party's Islamic roots, Erdogan's thinking about military action in Iraq has clearly changed, telling the ATV Turkish television network that parliament would now approve a military strike if the army sought it. "It is out of the question for us to disagree on this issue with our... soldiers," he said. He also indicated he would not seek the U.S.'s approval, which has opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turkish Move Into Iraq? | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...field. By fashioning a semblance of a young earth, oceans and all, Miller discovered that amino acids--key building blocks of life--could be generated from the chemicals presumed to have been present on the earliest earth. The experiment, results of which were published in 1953, helped launch the scientific study of the origin of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 4, 2007 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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