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...ancient sites is the world's second oldest profession. But what used to be a trickle of plundered treasures has become a flood in recent years. Villagers like Little Su, who see nothing wrong in converting an untapped resource into a few modern consumer appliances, are merely the first link in a global antiquities-smuggling chain that the U.N. says rivals the drug and arms trades in scope and scale. Says Kathryn Tubb, conservator of the Institute of Archaeology at University College of London: "It's commonly accepted by those of us who work in the field that...
...knew only the member directly above, making it nearly impossible to connect the thieves who were occasionally caught with stolen art to the mastermind at the top. But on June 6, after an intense, yearlong operation involving scores of police, the Indian authorities believed they had the proof to link two stolen statues to Ghia. Still, as police knocked on the door of Ghia's house in Jaipur to arrest him, they had no idea they were on the verge of dismantling the largest antiquities-smuggling ring in India's modern history...
...unhappily stashed in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a slab of '60s-style bureaucratic neoclassicism with mediocre acoustics. The following year Gehry won the competition to design the new hall. At the time--a decade before the debut at Bilbao--Gehry was best known as the man who made chain link and plywood into respectable building materials. Lillian, who was nearing 90 and whose taste ran to brick and thatched roofs, was utterly puzzled by the whiplashing scoops of Gehry's design, which he had developed with the help of software used to design fighter planes. To convey what...
...Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...
...Bush Wouldn't Listen It is clear that the Bush administration decided to invade and occupy a sovereign country that had never attacked the U.S. and was not even a real threat [Oct. 6]. There was no link between Saddam and al-Qaeda, and no WMD have been found. The French tried hard to warn the Americans not to invade Iraq, which is what you would expect from your oldest friend. But Bush wouldn't listen. This is a very sad time for those who used to look to America as the beacon of freedom and respect for human values...