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...regrettable decision, but one necessary to keep the fragile art and books safe—the Villa frequently funds top-notch restorations of the canvases on its walls. These paintings one day will be important for a researcher and may wind up in a museum. In a similar vein, the Fogg Art Museum’s collections serve art history students, but they also provide a rich collection for public visitors, and (equally important) collect and catalogue and preserve and restore artwork of extreme significance. Houghton Library is a fantastic resource for literary scholars; but of equal credibility...
...hope they will become part of the push to stop the layoffs,” said Tom Potter, one of the letter’s authors and an employee at the Law School library. “I think we may have found a vein of serious scholarly discontent. Hopefully, we’re already having the impact of making the administration hesitate about announcing layoffs...
...grindstone industriousness. But those led to accumulation, investment of surplus capital and, in time, prodigious production and a subversive—to Puritanism—cornucopia of material delights.” And having adopted the pedantic tone of a Just-So story, Will continues in that vein: “Soon there were department stores, those cathedrals of consumption.” America’s progression from the Mayflower to Macy’s to mayhem was, Will suggests, a predestined...
...years! Half of us will be dead by then!" he told supporters this month in the northern border town of Subotica. "We don't owe anything to anyone!" Kostunica's message is not quite as militant, but it's in the same vein. He complains bitterly about the "anti-Serb" Hague Tribunal and, in an interview with Time, suggested he had no intention of sending four indictees now in Serbia for trial there. "The Hague looks like a game to me. I will have these cases treated by our courts." He talks of Serbia's foreign interests lying not only...
...sets changed and the Liars’ instruments were “tuned,” and all were thrilled with not knowing what to expect. Would the band be playing old material, rousing the audience into frenzied dancing, or would they be debuting new songs of a different vein...