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...been stalling since early June, when Torrington, a tiny community with access to a bit of tourist-development money from the province, opened the Gopher Hole Museum. Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
Rudenstine has been much more successful in advocating diversity through channels that do not tend to receive national attention. He has made diversity a major priority in recruiting new faculty and has, as a result, achieved much renown within the University for his skills in bringing the best professors to Harvard...
...reflected an assessor's evaluation of fair market value, i.e., what an object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...
Pipes, who is a world-renown scholar of Russian history, served from 1981 to 1982 in the Reagan administration as an advisor to the National Security Council on Eastern Europe...
Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact that so many men and women of renown and significance attended this college is no accident, but a function of Harvard's unique involvement in the intellectual life of this nation. How exactly did it become the "place to be?" Certainly, no one would suggest that its notoriety and influence spontaneously came into being. But there is so much more even than this to be examined in our history...