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Finding one book would be too easy. My goal was to find three pieces of literature in the stacks in 30 minutes: one book, one pamphlet and one magazine. The topics, chosen at random, would be snails, Buddha and George Washington. Before I could hunt down my targets, I had to locate them using the HOLLIS computer terminals, which involved deciphering a series of encrypted codes derived from five ancient languages. To find a magazine article on snails, the following steps were necessary...
...first volume of John Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, published in 1991, took the artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...
...service of the Confederacy have been mistated or confusingly stated. As has been said before, the difficulty in proving what happened in an intersection accident only months ago demonstrates how unlikely it is that we can historically reconstruct events or mentalities 100 years ago or more. Some random points that may help put the project in perspective...
...Dialogue clips from Breakfast at Tiffany's and film shorts from The Graduate, Jaws and Silence of the Lambs elevate the disc above the genre of dry reference titles. When it comes time to make that all important video- store selection, the program lets you play roulette for a random suggestion or search by category. Expert reviews and online updates round out this first-rate offering. ($34.95; Microsoft...
...article also alleged that the University was aware but chose to ignore a 1993 letter Tadesse wrote to a Harvard Law School student whom she had picked at random...