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...Looting is wrong, looters have no legal title to the things they steal, and the descendants of those looters do not gain such title merely because a half-century has closed behind the theft. There is not a single object--not a book, not a letter, not a musical manuscript, a drawing, a painting or a vase--that the Russian forces of occupation ripped off from the museums and private collections of Germany and Eastern Europe that should remain, seen or unseen, in Russian hands. And the same goes for what the Germans stole from Russia. To claim otherwise...
...former editor of New York magazine and current columnist for Esquire, had not anticipated. A native of Syracuse, New York, he got the idea for his book three years after he took a weekend trip to Savannah in 1982. But the first literary agent to whom he submitted his manuscript turned it down, claiming it was too local and uncommercial. "When I was writing it people asked me if I thought it would be a best seller," says Berendt, "and I said, 'Are you kidding?' I thought it would be a cult favorite and a critical success. I didn...
Millennialism produces intriguing impulses in a culture. Around the year 1000, European manuscript artists and poets limned their visions of the Apocalypse. Today's equally important purveyors of world culture--American television producers--are approaching the next millennium with less dismal thoughts. They are offering an onslaught of science-fiction series replete with brilliant techno-fetishists, emoting robots and impassioned parapsychologists...
That trip came the day before the release ofRudenstine's 83-page report on the results of theacademic planning process. The president hadlabored over the manuscript himself, andsome--including Boston Globe columnist David L.Warsh '66--suggested that McArthur hadintentionally timed his speech to overshadow thepresident...
...computer's hard drive contained notes for an ongoing research project and the finished manuscript of a work on women labor activists, said Dr. Ann Schofield, owner of the computer. Schofield, a visiting scholar from the University of Kansas, is conducting research for the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies...