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...short drive away is Mogadishu's only public library, a privately funded institution set up eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First...
Hyman is assisting with the searches for a new dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and University Librarian, while Bok has been involved with searches for new deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design...
Professor and librarian Sidney Verba ’53, who chairs the 13-member faculty advisory group to the presidential search committee, says there are merits to both an inside and outside candidate...
...Jackie, who has rheumatoid arthritis, was married and divorced is now raising a son. Sue, another single mother, is doing the same. Lynn worked as a children's librarian out of a mobile van; she now helps mentally challenged children and worries about the end of government funding. Suzy, the posh girl, has a successful marriage...
...punk's best-educated tone-deaf singer. An excellent student at Berkeley, he deferred a Ph.D. program in history at Harvard to play in a Bay Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television address, and Institutionalized Misogyny name-checks Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Another ditty neatly summed up male...