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Harvard has had problems before with ITS employees, most notably in the case of Extension School student James A. Hogue, who was arrested on May 10, 1993, for stealing nearly $100,000 in precious gems from the Mineralogical Museum while serving as an employee there. And while Harvard museum officials now claim that tighter security prevents any such future disasters, Harvard Police have made clear their belief that background checks are necessary...
James A. Hogue, a Harvard Extension School student and casual employee of the Mineralogical Museum, was arrested on May 10, 1993, for stealing nearly $100,000 in precious gems, minerals and other property from that museum...
With that access, he stockpiled gold, silver, rubies, opals and more than 100 other precious and non-precious gems and minerals during a period of nine months. He also picked up a microscope valued...
...those not familiar with the jargon of electronic security, are computers that act like the guards in a corporation's front lobby. They are supposed to keep the tens of millions of people with Internet access from also having access to the company's internal computer system, where precious corporate assets may be stored. Firewalls typically use passwords, keys, alarms and other devices to lock out intruders. But though such obstacles are an essential feature of any well-designed security system, experts warn that the technology of firewalls is still in its infancy. "There is no such thing as absolute...
...Rome, where Poussin spent most of his life. Born in Normandy in 1594 (his father was a military officer, his mother an alderman's daughter), he was educated, probably by Jesuits, in Paris, and turned to painting before he was 20. A chance encounter with Giambattista Marino, the floridly precious Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII...