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Rose Valland looked nondescript - an ideal trait for a spy. Gray and unglamorous, with black-rimmed glasses that gave her a perpetual frown, she was virtually invisible to the Nazis who, in 1940, were using the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris as a depot for thousands of plundered art masterpieces on their way to Germany. While working in a menial maintenance job, Valland eavesdropped on her Nazi bosses as they catalogued looted Vermeers and Rembrandts, and shipped them off to the private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf...
...tearful Alan Greenspan confessed yesterday that he never was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, as he alleged in his best-selling autobiography, Irrational Exuberance, published last fall. The book's melodramatic descriptions of gray-haired men sitting around large conference tables talking about things like "libor" and "basis points" were "complete fiction," Greenspan now admits. He said he would return the $8.5 million advance he received from his publisher "just as soon as I can get back to the Fed and print it. Oh, wait. I made that up. I've never been inside the Fed in my life...
...time of 3:26.10. Harvard then continued its strong performances into the evening as Taylor and fellow freshman Hank Yan, along with sophomores Tyler Holland and Rick McKellar, finished the 200-free relay finals in a time of 1:24.38, good enough for fourth place. Sophomore Tommy Gray then followed with a second-place showing and a time of 4:33.27 in the 500-freestyle ‘A’ race. “We have deep, talented classes of freshmen and sophomores,” Gray said. “That really helped set the tone for EISLs...
...There is no party registration in Vermont, but it was once the most staunchly Republican state in the Union, supporting the G.O.P. in 28 straight presidential elections and enjoying a 108-year gap between Democratic governors. "It was a gray Republican backwater; being a Democrat meant FDR had appointed you to the post office," says John McLaughry, a former state legislator and Reagan Administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans...
...with meaning. In several shots, Mary and Anne wear the same dresses in different colors, which transforms them into a strange sort of yin and yang. The actors are repeatedly viewed through the lattices of windows and gates, as if they are trapped inside against their wills. The somber gray of the castle walls further highlights the painful directness of the lines. After spending a night with the King, Mary’s uncle asks matter-of-factly, “Did he bed you?” Then, “More than once?” Beneath...