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Despite such security measures, burglaries of valuable materials from Harvard libraries are not unheard of. In 1999, a thief made off with $1 million worth of Chinese printed books, dating back to the seventh century A.D., that had been kept in the Harvard-Yenching Library. Three years earlier, another $1 million in books went missing from Widener, Loeb, and the Fine Arts libraries...
Douglass was outraged when he heard about the meeting. In Central and South America, he noted, "distinct races live peaceably together in the enjoyment of equal rights" without civil wars. And he sneered at the notion that blacks were the cause of the war. A horse thief did not apologize for his theft by blaming the horse. "No, Mr. President, it is not the innocent horse that makes the horse thief ... but the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, money and Negroes by means of theft, robbery and rebellion." He called Lincoln "a genuine representative...
...mouth resuscitation. It depends as much on the interviewee as the interviewer. In this exhaustive grilling of showfolk past, Film Historian John Kobal has chosen his subjects artfully, and he has edited ruthlessly. Conversations with Bette Davis, whose dramatic biography has been overexposed, are omitted. June Duprez (The Thief of Bagdad) is included precisely be cause of her failure to ascend in Holly wood. With the British actress's help, and some probing questions, Kobal traces "what happened to her career after the film premiered in America and she became the outsider at her own party...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call from a complainant claiming that his or her credit card number had been stolen and was being used fraudulently from a computer with a Harvard campus IP address. A loss of $180 was sustained. It is still unknown whether the thief is a Harvard affiliate or someone simply using a University computer...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call from a complainant claiming that his or her credit card number had been stolen and was being used fraudulently from a computer with a Harvard campus IP address. A loss of $180 was sustained. It is still unknown whether the thief is a Harvard affiliate or someone simply using a University computer...