Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Librarian Arrested in Rare Book Heist...
...says he resigned because the law also requires that senators disclose the financial portfolios of spouses and other family members. A research librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society notes the irony of the resignation: William's father, Leverett, made a career of stressing "good government" efforts, such as stricter financial disclosure laws...
...When you talk of the Saltonstalls, the words that have to come are public service," says the Massachusetts Historical Society librarian. The Society is now in the process of adding a fifth volume to the collection of Saltonstall papers. While families like the Adamses or the Lodges may have reached greater pinnacles in public service, the librarian believes the Saltonstalls' 350 years of continuous public service is unparalleled...
...from Syrian President Hafez Assad, Jihad last year freed another American, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, but claimed that William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat, had been killed to avenge an Israeli air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia. Buckley's death remains unconfirmed. In April another American captive, Librarian Peter Kilburn, and two Britons were killed in retaliation for the U.S. air attack on Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Jihad...
...audience was Daniel Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, who is completing a sequel to his volume The Discoverers, a study of the men and women who unlocked the secrets of this world. His new work, The Creators, is about those people who took talent and energy and made something new. Boorstin looked at the gentle folks who came to the East Room to receive the new medal and mused on the special ingredients of creators. "The most important thing a government can do is foster the freedom in which the unexpected can happen," he said. Marian Anderson's voice rose...