Word: schoon
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DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...
When Widener Librarian Marion E. Schoon was given an old, aristocratic French name to research she logged into the College's library database and, after a few skillful search words, unearthed a clue: a historic museum in a town where a French family of the same name might have resided...
...Schoon says that readers ready to give up after fruitlessly flipping through card catalogues or hammering away at HOLLIS often approach her with a variety of requests...
...Harvard has a complex library system," Schoon says. "Librarians are not necessarily subject specialists, but rather path-finders...