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...chagrined guard unties himself and phones the Harvard police. The FBI immediately enters the case. The Cambridge police send over two detectives who helped crack the last coin theft at the Fogg. The thieves don't stand a chance...
...guard, warned to expect "Mr. Ryan," unsuspectingly opens the door. "Ryan" pulls a gun, binds and gags the watchman, and lets in four other gunmen. The band proceeds to the third-floor coin room and rips off 5600 Greek and Roman coins, valued at up to $5 million...
...Benedict Arnold alone, but he can not restrain himself from trying to polish the tarnished reputation of his maternal ancestor Burr. He does not try to turn Burr into a hero, but he does attempt to make him into something less two dimensional than the flip side of a coin. For this day and age, Vidal's attempt constitutes a rehabilitation of Burr. No one tries to write Parson Weems-type historical fiction anymore: larger-than-life heroes like Washington are no longer very appealing. To turn a villian into a hero of today's world-historical audience, the modern...
BENEDICT ARNOLD'S classical treason and Aaron Burr's sinister plotting are as integral a part of American tradition as Nathan Hale's martyrdom or Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy. Arnold and Burr are the flip side of the historical coin, and to try to turn either into a hero seems a thankless task...
...other side of the coin is that the Russians are desperately anxious for American trade and technology. Even as military alarms were being sounded round the world, U.S. oilmen, paradoxically, were mounting a $20 million display of oil-and gas-extraction equipment in Moscow. American technicians estimate that Soviet drilling and extraction equipment lags 15 years behind U.S. technology in the field. Thus it was novel but not really surprising to find the Soviet press berating Washington's diplomatic actions at the same time that it was wistfully quoting American businessmen as favoring "the liquidation of trade barriers" with...