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...public domain books. The company is also scanning copyrighted books, although not at Harvard, allowing them to be searched but not read in their entirety, but faces legal challenges from publishers. Google enables the reader to search these online tomes as well as locate them in the library nearest them. COSTS AND BENEFITSThe goal of all of these programs is open access, but Google isn’t a universal solution. Robert C. Darnton ’60, the current director of the Harvard University Library, says Google has its shortcomings. “I don’t think...
...chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
...message seems to have hit home with voters. The party has widened its lead since the poster campaign rolled out, according to the Gfs Research Institute, whose October 14 poll put the SVP ahead at 27.3%, compared with its nearest rival, the Social Democratic Party, at 21.7%. Of the 2,021 voters polled by the organization for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, 39.9% said they intended to vote for one of two center-right parties, and 10% said they would vote for the Greens. Ultimately Switzerland is likely to remain governed by four major parties, even if the SVP emerges victorious...
...Harvard territory, Leopards quarterback Mike DiPaola dropped back to pass on a third-and-one. Junior linebacker Glenn Dorris burst through the line and laid a big hit on DiPaola, who avoided a sack by making an ill-advised and wobbly throw that came up well short of the nearest receiver.“I started running after him, and as soon as I grabbed onto him, I knew he still had the ball, and then I kind of saw him throw it,” Dorris said. “I was thinking, ‘Dang, I didn?...
...traveling experiences—a particularly horrifying one. “While in Kyoto in March 2002, my wife and I found the body of a man who’d just hanged himself,” Bartok recalls. “We had to find the nearest police box and lead the police back to where the body was. That night we both had the same nightmare: that the soul of the man was trying to crawl through the window of our hotel room.” A collaborative effort of respected industry veterans, the film was directed...