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...magazine Gramophone asserted that at least some of Hatto's recordings were copies of other performers' work. A critic came upon the alleged fraud when he loaded a Hatto CD onto his computer and an online database automatically identified it as a set by Hungarian Laszlo Simon. An independent expert testing Hatto's catalog claims that the sound-wave patterns on at least five of her CDs are identical to earlier recordings. One online retailer has stopped selling Hatto's music, and the British Phonographic Industry has begun an investigation. If the allegations are true, says a BPI spokesman, "this...
...sale. The purchase became exceptional when a friend suggested that it might be a work by Jackson Pollock and the international art community took notice. Even more exceptional, however, was the method used to authenticate it.While art scholars argued over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock’s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched...
...Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East military expert and former national security aide to John McCain , says London's drawdown only cements Shi'ite power in southern Iraq. Shi'ite police in the region have been conducting sometimes deadly sect-based operations against Sunni residents for months, he says, and local politics have devolved into "a fractured mess" delinked from national political parties. "The coming British cuts in many ways reflect the political reality that the British `lost' the south more than a year ago," Cordesman, who has traveled to the region frequently, writes in a Wednesday analysis from his office...
...bureaucracy deterred many from taking the jump. In 1994, for instance, only 142 undergraduates—or just 2.2 percent of Harvard undergrads—went abroad. These low figures didn’t please the new president, globalization expert Lawrence H. Summers. Big plans and the global push were soon underway, but would academic quality be sacrificed for numbers...
...Minister Abe quickly reprimanded him, most Japanese agree with Kyuma - a poll this week found that 57% of Japanese opposed America's actions in Iraq. "Japan backed the U.S. on Iraq and what does it get from the U.S. in the Six-Party talks?" says Robert Dujarric, a security expert at the National Institute for Public Policy in the U.S. "Nothing, it seems...