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...most of the stolen items from the 363-piece Croesus Treasures still missing. But one of the men arrested in the plot is the same man who was hailed in 1993 as a hero for bringing back the collection (dating from 560 to 546 B.C.) from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art after a lengthy, multimillion-dollar legal battle. Turkish curator Kazim Akbiyikoglu, along with six others, was arrested for stealing the famous Croesus gold brooch (shaped like a seahorse) and several coins and replacing them with well-crafted fakes...
...first of yesterday’s two honorary Doctor of Arts degrees was awarded to Philippe de Montebello ’61 for his work as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...
Since his resignation from the Corporation, Harper says he continues to be involved in several nonprofit organizations, sitting on the boards of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Philosophy Society...
...neglect of the Niger delta by successive Nigerian governments is criminal, but the truth is that many other parts of the country have also suffered that same fate. Outside of a few metropolitan cities like Lagos, Abuja and Kano, Nigeria is a vast expanse of criminal neglect. The problems of the Niger Delta cannot be solved in isolation but must be addressed with all the other troubles plaguing Nigeria. And resorting to violence will only create more problems and solve none. Emmanuel Majebi Lagos...
...more to population trends than to any fault of the school system’s. Nolan and Fowler-Finn engaged each other in debate repeatedly throughout the night, with Nolan even preparing her own data that showed enrollment over the past four years for the towns and cities in metropolitan Boston. To refute the charge that Cambridge is losing school-age children because families are moving out to escape astronomical housing prices, Nolan grouped the cities and towns into low, medium, and high housing-priced districts. According to her data, the high-priced districts gained enrollment, the medium-priced ones...