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...four paintings stolen at gunpoint earlier this month from a Zurich museum were found in good condition Monday afternoon, the police reported on Tuesday. But efforts continue to catch the thieves and find the other two stolen masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Police Recover Masterpieces | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...brazen heist, which the police called the "most spectacular" in Swiss history, took place at 4:30 on the afternoon of February 10, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa, which houses one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, estimated at $160 million. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Police Recover Masterpieces | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

World-renowned actor and martial-arts champion Jet Li spoke to a packed audience at Loeb Drama Center yesterday afternoon, offering advice to Harvard students on everything from how to build a successful marriage to how to view the world with a global perspective...

Author: By Johnny H. Hu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jet Li Fights for Global Teamwork | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...positive for the Harvard team appeared in the continuation of a six-match win streak for Matt Button at 165 lbs. The senior took out the Bears’ Chris Muesser to earn the Crimson its only other points in the match. Unfortunately for Harvard, the rest of the afternoon was ripe with adversity. Senior Bobby Latessa suffered a knee injury in the first minute of his bout at 157 lbs. While Latessa’s inability to continue did not prove decisive in the overall match, the much bigger concern for the Crimson is his health, as the team...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Recovery From Early Deficit | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...first thing Lhee Santos remembers of the worst afternoon of his life was the tall, thin man kicking open the door on the lecture hall's right side. It was 3:06 p.m. and the intruder walked onto the stage, startling the professor, Joseph Peterson. The unannounced visitor bore several weapons, including a 12-gauge shotgun, a 9-mm Glock pistol and two other pistols. He wore jeans and a t-shirt and carried a guitar case. The 150 or so students in the introductory geology class thought it was all just a joke. That is, until the gunfire started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the NIU Massacre Happened | 2/16/2008 | See Source »

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