Last week, council leader Keith Mitchell wrote an article for The Guardian criticising library campaigners, whom he labelled "well-heeled worthies", for failing to understand that reducing cuts to libraries would mean more cuts for social care and roads.

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The newspaper published an article Thursday citing documents from Harvard's library that show its law school reported a Native American female professor in federal statistics in 1992, when Ms. Warren was a visiting professor.

WSJ: Warren Says She Informed Universities of Ancestry

At the college library one day, he read a journal article by the late Jay Bailey , a Caltech chemical engineer who was trying to use genetic engineering to fashion "designer" bacteria to produce drugs, agricultural products and industrial chemicals.

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"No one can volunteer at a library or a Sure Start centre if it's being closed down, " he said in an article for The Independent on Sunday.

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