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When guests charter the 183-ft. (56 m) sailing yacht Selene, for example, they are met by the captain, steward and seven other crew members, including the chef, Justin Arblaster. The world is his supermarket. Aged beef is flown in from England, truffles from Italy and foie gras from Strasbourg. "If the guests want Russian caviar, I can have it flown in to where we are by helicopter or seaplane," Arblaster says...
...challenge of expanding science at Harvard while maintaining the coherence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and allowing both small and large research endeavors to thrive. Such vexing tasks don’t call for someone with a particular academic background; they require and deserve a trustworthy steward with proven leadership and intellectual abilities—someone who can listen and who will respond intelligently and appropriately to new circumstances...
...take over July 1 carries with it significant prestige but not an automatic mandate. The director of the University Library is only the first among equals in a relatively decentralized library system, and Darnton will have to work hard to seek consensus.Although the HUL director is nominally the chief steward of Harvard’s collections, he does not directly exercise budgetary authority over individual libraries but plays a coordinating role between them. While the University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent...
...Although Darnton is considered the chief steward of Harvard’s library collections, his department’s budget is significantly smaller than the Harvard College Library (HCL), the library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). According to the annual report from 2004-2005, the most recent available, the University Library’s budget was $16.1 million while HCL’s budget was $72.7 million...
...What makes this massive undertaking significant is that all this information will be overseen by paid experts (known as "stewards") to ensure accuracy, and each portal will be contextualized in relation to other portals. For example, the expert of the Ocean portal can grant editorial control to a steward for the Reef Portal, then in turn the Fish Portal, then the Shark Portal, The Angel Fish Portal, and so on. "The editorial network builds itself, like a tree, so it grows organically and exponentially, with editors choosing editors," says Firmage, 36. "It creates a global editorial room allowing for checks...