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...unlikely he ever pretended to his bosses that he could be. If there is anything that Bryant Gumbel seems innately incapable of, it is faking sentiment. (No one has forgotten his infamous 1988 memo rightly excoriating Willard Scott's Today show antics.) That could make it especially hard for Gumbel to compete in a newsmagazine world full of melodramatic affect and a sense of false earnestness...
...Charles Willard, librarian, faculty member and secretary of the faculty at the Divinity School, says that "if funds were in hand" there would be an addition of two floors to the newer building as well as a renovation of the interior of the entire library, including the addition of environmental controls, a change which library preservationists say is crucial to the protection of the books...
Technological improvements are also needed. The library currently possesses 20 "dumb" Hollis terminals, which do not have network capability and will become unusable when the library system moves to Hollis II between November 1997 and January 1999, according to Willard...
...belief and intention that the library continues to support the informational needs of faculty and students here," Willard says. "The nature of those needs will change dramatically in the near future and it will cost money to make that intention happen...
...said Owens, who has been working on two hours of sleep a night. "We got out with our lives, and the rest of it we can rebuild if we keep helping each other like we have been." Her 92-year-old father, Willard Guerard, had to be rescued by helicopter from his farm near East Grand Forks. Asked where his daughter, who has gone from virtual anonymity to daily appearances on national television, got her wits and her will, he said, "From me." As a girl, he added, Pat farmed potatoes with her dad, and feeling the earth in your...