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...parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero...
...about the issue arises from different perceptions of the two institutions, a gut reaction over which one arouses greater distrust: Radcliffe, laden with 100 years of unrealized potential, or Harvard, with a record of 300 years of discrimination and indifference to women. Women agree that they have a long haul ahead before they'll be fully accepted into Harvard and into society as a whole; they disagree over whether they should rest their hopes with Harvard or with Radcliffe...
...explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...
...contracts for 69 new F-15 fighters in the next two years instead of the 72 it had planned. The Navy may be forced to purchase 21 rather than 30 new destroyers next year. The Army is reluctantly setting aside its plans to buy heavy-lift helicopters that can haul 22.5 tons...
...Three years later, a federal judge ruled for the Longs. Two weeks ago, chastened by its initial loss, the Government agreed to a new Long request and turned over statistical summaries of the 2 million audits made each year since 1954. While dredging through their latest haul, the Longs will be seeking to find whether established agency procedures and practice discriminate against small taxpayers...