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...never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne jewel thief or heroin smuggler who cannot be caught unless police spin a global...
...books of the New Testament are considerably more vivid in their portrayal of the hereafter. In Revelation, heaven is described as a city of "pure gold" whose walls are "adorned with every jewel," and hell is called "the lake that burns with fire and brimstone"; in hell, according to Matthew, sinners "will weep and gnash their teeth." Though scholars regard such descriptions as being primarily imagery, Christianity at one time accepted them as literally true. In the Middle Ages, Dante confidently limned a topography of the beyond that seemed as convincingly detailed as a map of Italy...
When most men visit Van Cleef & Arpels, the jewelry salon on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the result is likely to be an overdrawn bank account. When George Balanchine visits Van Cleef & Arpels, the result is a ballet. Jeweler Claude Arpels once suggested that Balanchine create a jewel-inspired dance, so the choreographer took a stroll past the store's gleaming showcases, and sure enough, his head filled with visions of bedecked ballerinas. Why not a trilogy, he thought, based on the motifs of emeralds, rubies and diamonds...
...troupe gave the untitled work its premiere last week at Lincoln Center, and it was the most sumptuous and imaginative ballet in years. Typical of Balanchine, there was no story, but the way he molded the ebb and flow of dancing figures was as riveting as any narrative. Each jewel refracted a side of the Balanchine style; together, they showed a spectrum of radiance...
...present roster of 13,000 employees, of whom 10,000 are guards, spend most of their time on just such mundane assignments. They not only patrol plants for corporations but also undertake security checks or theft investigations inside the gates. Other agents, in a longtime arrangement with the Jewelers' Security Alliance, investigate jewel thefts and losses; under an agreement with Eastern race tracks, the Pinks guard thoroughbreds and chase away bookies and purse snatchers. Uniformed Pinkerton men stand watch at annual corporate meetings, and have been known to haul obstreperous stockholders out bodily on orders from the chair...