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...recent years, another episode of his career at the Met came back to haunt him. It involved the Euphronios krater, a Greek mixing pot from the 6th century B.C. that the Met purchased in 1972 for what was then the enormous price of about $1 million. When it was offered to Hoving, he merrily surmised that it might well have been looted from an archeological dig, as he admitted in Making the Mummies Dance, his typically cocky 1993 memoir. Though he goes on in that book to describe how he became convinced that it wasn't stolen, on another page...
...rainy season. You cannot say with certainty but [cholera] is not likely to be as ravaging as late year." Nevertheless, she adds that her organization is supplying hygiene kits to 5,000 schools to prevent cholera. Until public sanitation improves, the ghost of cholera will continue to haunt Zimbabwe...
...you’re craving a carb fix after one-too-many drinks from the open bar, take a tip from Yale students and check out the favorite undergrad haunt, Ivy Noodle, a generic, slightly sketchy, but nonetheless delicious Asian grease-spoon that’s open until 2 a.m. Try their teriyaki bowl or their scallion pancakes...
...months, the FHA has suspended eight of its lenders, hired its first chief risk officer and taken other steps to beef up its controls. But some bad calls - whether from a lack of resources (it has long begged Congress to fund computer upgrades) or a lack of judgment - will haunt the agency for years. Loans it backed in 2006 and 2007 are souring at a particularly high rate because of seller-financed down payments; when a home buyer isn't the one ponying up equity, there is more than twice as much chance that the loan will go bad. That...
Although the fee will likely be "hidden" within airfares, Harteveldt is concerned that it could ultimately work against TPA initiatives and "come back to haunt us." But Senator Dorgan counters that $10 is far lower than similar fees - ranging from Ireland's $14 entry tax to the U.K.'s whopping $100 - paid by Americans when they travel abroad. And with a mere 35 countries that would be required to pay the fee, fewer than 30% of foreign travelers will be affected...