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...officer was dispatched to Soldiers Field Park to take a report of a stolen red velvet jewelry bag valued at $20 that contained a silver tennis bracelet valued at $2,000, a gold & pearl bracelet valued at $100, a pair of white crystal earrings valued at $50, a pair of 14-karat gold earrings valued at $100, a copper and crystal Swarovski earring and necklace set valued at $300, a gold and brown crystal necklace valued at $100, and a silver and gold watch valued...
...spring of 1848, a Saturday afternoon. During the previous two months, gold had been discovered in California and America's war with Mexico had finished. An impromptu revolution in Paris had caused the French king to abdicate, the first of 50 revolutionary dominoes to fall in Europe. In New York City, the writer and photographer Timothy Skaggs--35, single, fun loving, with no grand purpose in life--prepared to go among the multitude...
...path to the office of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Director Thomas W. Lentz is paved with art-world gold. On the walls of his small study tucked away in the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, the works of Georges Braque and Walter Sickert—the painter who some think led a double life as Jack the Ripper—represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard?...
...Gold mining in Guyana inflicts “severe environmental, health, and social damage on the areas and people near mining operations,” according to a Harvard Law School report released this week. The situation in Guyana reflects a broader global concern, said Bonnie L. Docherty, a clinical instructor at the Law School who helped produce the report. “It’s a classic example of the linkage between environmental damage and human rights abuses,” she said, citing the indigenous Guyanese population’s dependence on local rivers for food, water...
...injuries—a squad that fell out of the Ivy title picture before the second round of Ivies even started. Now, as the Crimson goes dancing for the first time in four years, I can’t help but feel a little left out. Despite winning gold in men’s basketball for the first time in the 2004 Olympics, Argentina remains a stolidly fútbol-crazy nation. The term ‘March Madness’ would likely fall on deaf ears, as each local match between rival clubs carries with it the intensity (and, often...