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...marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could bounce her from alp to alp, all the way to Munich, without doing her any harm," an American conservationist said at the time. Instead, they sent her to Belgium. After two years in a cold, dark mine, the Madonna was home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied Art Hunters: Saving Beauty | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...what really happened to “The Arctic Sea,” a ship with an Estonian, Latvian, and Russian crew that was nominally bound from Finland to Algeria with a cargo of harmless timber. Initial reports claimed masked men speaking accented English subdued, but did not harm, the crew; then the ship simply vanished. Russia has claimed, once the ship was found off West Africa, that there was no suspicious cargo on board besides the intended logs. Yet experts believe there was more to the ship’s hijacking than pirates seeking ransom...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Eyeing Israeli Intervention | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Stay through the end credits of Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man and you'll find the disclaimer: "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture." That statement is open to dispute, since most of the film's characters are Jewish - residents of suburban Minneapolis in 1967 - and just about all of them, it seems, are out to harm the Coens' hapless hero, college physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlberg), either intentionally or just by ignoring his mostly mute cries for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...fact that “self-harm behaviors” such as substance abuse and cutting are increasingly correlated with eating disorders shows that “people are under higher levels of stress and [are] not getting help for what they’re needing,” Armstrong said...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: The Skinny on Drunkorexia | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...economic situation. “Athletes who don’t get the sweaters should be able to pay for them at a reasonable price,” said women’s water polo co-captain Kelly Peeler. “I don’t see the harm in selling them to us at the normal prices they would get it for. In terms of the culture, DHA sweaters are important, but it’s understandable if cuts have to be made.” Another recent athletic concern pertained to the department’s policies...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Athletes Denied Traditional Garb | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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