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They stole the wrong money. last February, in Tonbridge, England, a gang of thugs pulled off an audacious $97 million heist of a cash storage depot. They were good enough to get into the warehouse (requiring military-style reconnaissance and intelligence), and good enough to get out with the loot (requiring serious logistical planning), but they failed when it came to Stage 3 - making the money disappear. In late June, long after the story had fallen off the front pages, four more people were arrested in relation to the case - one of them in Morocco - and another million pounds...
...heist was a wake-up call for Turkey, with its rich storehouse of antiquities, and has helped expose the shoddy state of museums across the country. Culture minister Atilla Koc last week ordered a nationwide inventory of museums. Several institutions are now being investigated for losses. The inquiry has already produced results; the manager of the depot at another Turkish museum in south-central Turkey was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch...
...heist may bolster the arguments of critics of the repatriation movement, which has been growing of late. In February, the Met agreed to return to Italy 21 artifacts that were illegally excavated. Both Italy and Greece are seeking the return of objects at the Getty Museum, and Peru is demanding that Yale University return artifacts that were taken from the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in the early 1900s...
...looking back upon my time at Harvard in recent weeks, I’ve come to see the heist as far more than an opportunity for self-congratulation—though it undoubtedly is that, too—and as a lens through which to examine the whole of my college experience...
...homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony - it is a great sadness - that Melville died suddenly of a stroke when he was only 55 years old. Still, he left behind a small, coherent body of work, in which hard, seemingly dispassionate men do their dirty work slowly...