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...change in the United States and the United Kingdom. Robert D. Putnam, the Malkin professor of public policy, served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1989 to 1991 and has advised leaders including Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. His newest undertaking, “Social Change: A Joint Project of Harvard and Manchester,” announced yesterday, involves transatlantic comparisons of civic engagement given the evolving workplace, increased immigration, and changing attitudes to religion, among other topics. A member of both the British Academy and the U.S. National Academy of Science, Putnam was recently awarded the 2006 Johan...
...Gunn should give his Project Runway contestants a nifty new assignment: cut up the traditional tuxedo and reconstruct it in a way that looks new. Sounds easier than it is. But in Paris, where cutting skills are paramount in fashion, how to reconstruct formal attire-especially the tux-was the theme of the day on Monday...
...American Society of Landscape Architects yesterday awarded two Graduate School of Design faculty members with Excellence in General Design, the highest award the society bestows. Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic in Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence. The recipients were selected from a pool of 500 nominees. Van Valkenburgh and his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, are receiving the award for a seven-year landscaping plan at Wellesley College. The firm is in the midst of redesigning 13.5 acres...
Verba sought to revolutionize and redefine the concept of the digitized library catalog through his vision to outmode traditional paradigms of searching such as HOLLIS and WorldCat. This vision culminated in the birth of the Google Print Library project (since renamed the Google Book Search project), which in its culmination will not only enable users to obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal...
Today, Google Book Search project is still in beta testing, but already 10,000 public domain books are indexed and available in search results; many full texts are available via PDF download. These are small steps on the way to the eventual goal of creating a comprehensive virtual catalog of all books in all languages. Verba had that ambition when he served as director of HUL, and we hope that his dream will be realized in his golden years, after a monumental tenure as an advocate and pacesetter for academia...