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Daniel Searle, heir to a $1.5 billion fortune, has largely devoted himself to charity since stepping down 20 years ago as head of his family's pharmaceutical company. And no institution has received more of his attention than the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1987, at the museum's behest and with the assistance of two of its curators, Searle purchased a Degas pastel known as Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from...
...play's conclusion has Sam wheeling his 20-year-old granddaughter, a victim of the plant explosion, out on the porch for some sun. She is heir to the vanity, zeal, and foolishness of the generation between she and Sam. For Sam's generation is too wise, ours is not, and we are haunted for our smartness by our very own progeny...
...princess so that he can reap a reward from Anastasia's surviving grandmother. Amidst all this, Anastasia must deal with her amnesia (which seems a strange perversion of repressed memory syndrome) and with the pesky Rasputin who rises from Hell in order to destroy the last heir of the Romanovs...
...years ago in his native Japan. Published in a three-part serialization, it is one of the most popular novels in recent Japanese literature. Critics have proclaimed Murakami, also the author of the much-lauded Dance Dance Dance and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the heir-apparent to the great Yukio Mishima (Decay of the Angel...
...that your grandfather may have owned a Monet, do you have a right to it? That is far from obvious. But even if the answer to this question is yes, the French government will give and always would have given you back the artwork if you are the rightful heir. At this stage in the game, however, the onus is and should be on the retriever and not the French government to find and return lost art. The French government, while it could perhaps have made greater publicity efforts in the past, is not behaving badly by providing precious...