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Dozens of ancient coins, Babylonian bas-reliefs, Assyrian and Egyptian monuments, and Hittite tablets found a home at Harvard in 1903 thanks largely to the generosity of one man, Jacob Henry Schiff...
...last time Martin Amis caused literary ripples on this side of the Atlantic, he was the offended party in a plagiarism scandal. That was in 1980 when a young American writer named Jacob Epstein confessed that he had not sufficiently "originalized" whole passages from Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, before incorporating them into his own fictional debut, Wild Oats. Now the son of British Novelist Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim, One Fat Englishman) is back with a splash. Money: A Suicide Note is one of those infrequent novels that should divide readers into admirers and detractors, with little room...
After last week's riots erupted, a chastened Viljoen hurriedly agreed to talk to representatives of the squatters. By then, however, the damage had been done. "People here live in fear of today, tomorrow and the next day," said Crossroads Resident Jacob Mkhuzi. "There are so many scares and rumors here that no one can trust anyone anymore...
From 5 ft. away one sees how the chin of a woman is like a crag or how the white eyeballs of the old man on the left of the Jacob-Joseph lunette bulge like those of a bodhisattva in a "mad" Zen scroll; and how this is reinforced by colors nobody had seen since the end of the 16th century. They had begun to disappear almost from the moment Michelangelo began laying them on the wet plaster...
...page report of the special counsel, Washington Lawyer Jacob Stein, cleared Meese of any criminal acts but did not pass judgment on the ethics of his conduct. Common Cause, a nonpartisan public interest lobby, claimed that the findings showed Meese's actions to be unethical. The Common Cause complaint, in turn, prompted David Martin, director of the ethics office, to ask his staff to examine the case. Two civil service attorneys, F. Gary Davis and Nancy Feathers, wrote a memo last month that cited three "ethics violations" by Meese and one incident that presented an "appearance problem...