Post-war Iraqi politicians have shown an alarming tendency to turn ministries into their personal preserves, packing them with their own supporters and diverting contracts to their allies.
They ponied up around $120,000 to buy the island of Hilton Head for use as their personal hunting preserve.
It is a tender personal moment preserved for ever, like a butterfly under glass.
There are many charming personal poems preserved on the internet, written for people's boyfriends: certainly cherished by the recipients, but not ones that have needed much influence from poetry written in the past 100 years.
So there was Ms. Grohs-Martin, digital and live, on Wednesday night at the American Museum of Natural History, where Steven Spielberg displayed the latest developments in his computer project to "make history personal" by preserving the testimonies of those who lived through the Nazi onslaught of World War II.
At the Brussels International Exposition, the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique named Greed as one of the twelve greatest films ever made and simultaneously published von Stroheim's original, uncut script for Greed, which came directly from von Stroheim's personal copy preserved by his widow Denise Vernac.
Carroll said in a phone interview that he has been amassing the letters for close to 15 years as part of the Legacy Project, his imitative to collect and preserve personal correspondences from active duty military personal, veterans and their family. .
After the birth of their two daughters, Tricia in 1946 and Julie in 1948, she tried to separate the family's political and personal lives and preserve some privacy for her children.
These two wheels are mounted on a framework of standard, or ordinary time, with saints' days spangled decoratively across the whole machine to preserve personal stories associated with particular places through the dedications of church buildings and corporate bodies.
Keynes's "How to Pay for the War" was a blueprint specifically designed to preserve personal freedom and prevent Britain from being turned into a centrally planned "slave" state.
