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Coach: Schafer (9th year overall and at Cornell...
...University of Southern California raised the most of any school in 2002. It catapulted from 34th place overall with gifts of $280 million in 2001 to 9th place with gifts of $585 million last year, thanks to two $100 million donations...
...country has lost so much so quickly as Cambodia, whose jungles hid cities built by the mysterious Angkor Empire between the 9th and 14th centuries. Peace has proved far more destructive than war to the turbulent nation's antiquities. While the relic-rich northwest was under Khmer Rouge control through the mid-'90s, Western dealers couldn't reach many of the prime sites for fear of land mines and cross fire. It was only with the full cessation of civil war a few years ago that foreigners could once again freely visit the relic sites around the legendary Angkor...
Inside Ghia's home, the cops say they found hundreds of photographs of looted 9th to 11th century statues, a long list of private collectors' phone numbers and 68 auction-house catalogs featuring some of the same artifacts. Based on a detailed confession from Ghia, police claim he spent 30 years smuggling an estimated 50,000 idols, paintings and statues stolen from protected monuments around the country. On Sept. 2, charges were filed against Ghia and 21 alleged looters believed to be part of his smuggling ring. Police retrieved stolen goods from some of them, including a dismantled Mughal pavilion...
...more advanced language classes such as “Old Irish,” in which students read texts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries, however, tend to be reserved for graduate students...