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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...
...Though counsel served feeless, the defense put its costs between $20,000 and $25,000. The largest items were transporting to Dayton the group of expert witnesses whose testimony went unheard. Actual court costs were $300, treble the fine imposed...
...that his aim indeed was to kill and be killed, some of them found it difficult to hide their tears. In a culture where a policeman, as one testifying officer put it, can be proud he has not used his firearm for 28 years, such dedication to violence is unheard of. Court spokesperson Marjoke van Kamp said: "He is making it very difficult for the court to be mild." The verdict is due on July 26 and is widely expected to deliver a life sentence without parole. One question remains: How could Bouyeri, whom the prosecutor described as "an ordinary...
...Soviet television. In Moscow citizens took obvious pride in her stylishness. Said a Soviet artist: "You Westerners must have thought all our women were barrel-shaped grannies like Brezhnev's wife." Some observers thought that the First Lady's performance might lead to a more formal role, heretofore unheard of, in Soviet public life...
...antideportations group, Athlone Families Together, is prepared to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: "People are fiercely determined that justice will be done." While much of Europe is considering restricting immigrants, the Irish, it seems, want to keep theirs. That sentiment was unheard-of five years ago, when the government began housing asylum seekers in hostels and detention centers around the country. As busloads of African and East European immigrants arrived in villages that were homogeneously Irish - and 100% white - many residents feared exotic diseases, rising crime rates and falling property values. So they...