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...Getty is getting attention for the kinds of spending that museums don't brag about. Next month, the trial of former antiquities curator, Marion True, resumes in Italy on charges that she helped the museum buy 42 illegally looted Roman and Etruscan artifacts. True has denied the allegations, but last week she resigned after the revelation that a dealer involved in some of the purchases helped her get a loan for a vacation home in Greece. Critics of the museum say her case is a symptom of a culture of mismanagement and excess, in which the head of the museum...
...Clear skies on Saturday at Boston College for the Metro Series 4 helped Harvard toward 77 points and a fourth place finish, just five points ahead of fifth-place Bowdoin. The A-division tandem of juniors skipper Matthew Knowles and crew Marion Guillaume earned 38 points, while juniors Robby McIntosh and Ashley Nathanson notched 39 for the B division. The A-division’s six total races yielded a sixth place finish, while the B-division ended in seventh. The host Eagles were again the winners, picking up just 45 points on the day. Sailing two teams...
...they couldn't get here as planned. I spent the morning trying to find hotel rooms anywhere in the state for them, but couldn't find anything south of Amarillo or east of El Paso. Friends have been calling, offering my family a place to stay in places like Marion, Ohio. But by early afternoon, we had a concrete plan. Everyone is going to San Antonio...
...fiercely independent heritage. The Army's Rangers take their name from Rogers' Rangers, the New Hampshire militiamen under Major Robert Rogers, who skillfully used the Indians' tactics of stealth and surprise against them during the French and Indian War of the 1750s and '60s. From the irregulars under Francis Marion (the "Swamp Fox"), who harassed the British in the Revolutionary War, to Brigadier General Frank Merrill's Marauders, who bedeviled the Japanese in Burma during World War II, old-time American fighting men often proved adept at unconventional warfare...
Suspicions about Syria's role were bolstered by an interview with Pierre Marion, head of France's foreign-intelligence operations in 1981-82. Marion said that during his term he met twice with Assad's brother Rifaat, who at the time headed one of Syria's secret-service branches. "I looked him in the eyes and I said, 'Your Excellency, you are going to promise me that there will be no more terrorist attacks in France,'" Marion recalled. "He promised it to me and he kept his word...