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...couldn’t really move in here,” Smith said, describing the atmosphere in the common room. While everyone knew that Smith would eventually end up with the loot, the evening was still full of anticipation as her friends waited for her to appear as the second-to-last contestant to get up on stage in the hour-long show...

Author: By Biana Fay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Price Is Right’ for Lucky Sophomore | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

...relative of the eccentric former owner, knows that millions of dollars are still hidden in the house. His nasty surprise is that the house is occupied; he thought the house was still being held in escrow, which would keep it empty longer. The Altmans' nasty surprise is that the loot is hidden in the eponymous Panic Room, the house's steel-encased, supposedly impenetrable retreat of last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Home Alone | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Korea became less prosperous only after it parted ways with Japan." The University of Tokyo's Saotome says, "They did this to justify Japanese colonization." By the time Japan declared Korea a protectorate in 1905, hordes of Japanese treasure hunters were making a living excavating tombs and selling the loot. They had dreams of striking it rich, digging out tombs as if they were gold mines, according to a contemporary interview with Akio Koizumi, the Japanese director of the Pyongyang Museum during the 1930s. They were spurred on by tales about golden chickens that would crow from the tombs every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy Lost | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...Sacramento district attorney, the FBI has used new forensic techniques to link the lead pellets in Opsahl's abdomen to shotgun shells recovered from an S.L.A. safe house. Olson's guilty plea in the bombing plot reportedly confirmed what Hearst told the FBI decades ago--that the loot from the robbery helped finance subsequent S.L.A. crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Aged Radicals, Plucked from Suburbia | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...Omen The body of a Japanese woman was found frozen in a Minnesota snowbank; she had set out in search of the fictional loot from the 1996 black comedy Fargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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