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Volpe believes that a harsher attitude by judges would help stem the problem. Says he: "An art thief is entertaining, romantic. I've seen cases where the thief has pleaded guilty and gotten no sentence at all." Equally helpful would be better security. In San Francisco's De Young Museum, for example, an electric "key system" to ensure that guards made their rounds was disconnected three years ago. In Chicago, the C−zannes had been kept for two months in a storage room along with brooms and stepladders while a gallery was being remodeled. The theft...
...recent, harsher times, the Chinese were told to cut the holiday short and to avoid frivolity. This year, newspapers and radio stations urged them to have a good time, which was all the encouragement that they needed. Firecrackers began popping well in advance of the holiday. Shoppers thronged department stores and marketplaces. In the major cities they were able to choose from among 3,000 consumer items. Many had not been available before, ranging from enamelware to stretch socks...
...Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
...declaring Namibia a "sacred trust of civilization" and requiring South Africa "to promote to the utmost the material and moral well being of and the social progress of the inhabitants of the territory." Instead, over a period of 60 years, South Africa has steadily moved to impose ever harsher apartheid regulations on Nambia's native population...
...know they have nothing to gain by going to trial," says Stevens Clarke, a University of North Carolina professor of public law and government who monitored the study. Making a judge sit through several days of trial, especially if the defendant has perjured himself, can only bring down a harsher sentence than if the defendant had just pleaded guilty to begin with. "To me, that's still plea bargaining," says Colorado's Alschuler. "That's the loophole in the Alaska...