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...France and The Da Vinci Code - Mona Lisa was different from other pictures. The woman with the enigmatic smile got so many love letters that her portrait was the only artwork at the Louvre to have its own mailbox. A heartbroken suitor once shot himself to death in front...
...shut down. Police arrived to question the staff, re-enact the crime and dust for fingerprints, a new crime-fighting technique in those days. The French border was sealed and departing ships and trains searched. By the time the museum re-opened nine days later, the theft was front-page news around the world. Tips were pouring in from amateur detectives, nutty professors and clairvoyants. Thousands of people lined up at the Louvre just to see the empty spot where the painting once hung. Among them was Franz Kafka, who was visiting Paris and whose cameo in this story...
...wonder we're all going over the edge. Maybe the crew were concentrating too much on their bonuses (their exit strategy), or maybe they just climbed into their boat the wrong way (conditions of entry). It's time we learned how to row boats again: backs facing the front and pull hard. David Jonnes, MARSEILLE, FRANCE...
...peek inside. Whether you'd like to learn algebra from a mathematician at MIT, watch how to make crawfish étouffée from an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America or study blues guitar with a professor at Berklee College of Music, you can do it all in front of your computer, courtesy of other people's money. In March, YouTube launched an education hub called YouTube Edu, dedicated exclusively to videos from the more than 100 schools--ranging from Grand Rapids Community College to Harvard Business School--that have set up official channels on the site. Liberated from...
...about the reasons why several university intellectuals have chosen to strike, said Lawrence Arbuthnott ’10 in an interview with The Crimson this weekend. “At the beginning of class, I would walk into my classes and was surprisingly greeted by a professor at the front of the room,†Arbuthnott said. “Once class started, however, the professor would sit down with the students and start informing the class about the strike,†he added. Once universities began closing their doors in France, many students quickly grew nervous about...