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...collections. One week after I last saw it, the krater was in Rome, along with 68 other objects recovered from the Met, the Getty, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and other places, all on display as part of "Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces"--nostoi is Greek for "homecomings"--a victory-lap exhibition of repatriated treasures...
...such violence "can not remain unpunished." But on Monday Sarkozy's political rivals questioned whether the real objective of the busts wasn't instead to stage a diversion to the President's plunging approval ratings with a bit of heart-stirring crime fighting for the nation's media to lap up. Such high-profile law-and-order activity, Sarkozy's detractors allege, might also help limit losses the right is expected to suffer should voters use nationwide municipal elections next month to express dismay with the national leadership of Sarkozy and his ruling majority...
...month offering similar ad-supported and pay-per-view options. Eros also brokered a deal late last year to upload trailers, movie clips and music videos to YouTube; so far, its clips have been viewed 15 million times. "This showed us that there was a sizeable segment that would lap up ad-supported free content," says senior vice president Manu Kaushish...
...open Sunday’s session with a 1-2-3 sweep of the 100-yard free, Mills once again brought her team closer in the 200-yard backstroke that followed with a 2:01.94 second-place finish. “I definitely saw people fight through the last lap,” Hart said of her teammates’ resiliency. Senior co-captain Jaclyn Pangilinan, last year’s winner of the 100-yard breaststroke at the HYP meet, brought home a third-place and two fourth-place finishes for her team this year. She touched the wall...
Mitt Romney's mind is a marvel - a calculating, evaluating, inquisitive, all-consuming consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand...