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...This hernia-inducing monster measures in at 37 by 27 inches and resembles less a book than an ornate piece of antique furniture. "That doesn't sound very imposing," explains Halpert, "but it takes the strength of two to move it, an action we perform as seldom as possible." Though only two inches thick, the book's binding drips with metal ornamentation and decorative gilt. Houghton's two copies lie comfortably in custom-made cloth cases, so comfortably, in fact, that librarians hate to disturb them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...these connections, of course, remain circumstantial. It is in the nature of covert operations that they're seldom reported unless they go wrong, or if those responsible want to gloat. Right now only the Turks are gloating. And judging by the frenzy of protests across Europe, if anyone else helped out, they'd be well advised to keep that fact to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Ocalan's Capture: Deceit, Abduction -- and the Mossad? | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Even when everything goes as planned, American history and literature students seldom face a dazzling array of choices when seeking a course to fill their concentration's colonial literature requirement...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: [Course Selection] | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

Even when everything goes as planned, American history and literature students seldom face a dazzling array of choices when seeking a course to fill their concentration's colonial literature requirement...

Author: By Tara L. Colon and Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Sabbaticals Leave Gaps in Some Departments' Class Offerings | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Democratic National Committee organized 200 "State of the Union Watch" parties at people's homes to rally activist support. The scandal has been very good to the party: small-dollar direct-mail response in 1998 was up 53% over 1994, the last midterm year, and opinion polls have seldom shown a greater differential between the two parties in favor of the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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