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...friends—the womanizing Tom and innocent Hannah, respectively. The two meet in college at Cornell—a poor beginning, in my opinion. Ten years later, Tom is the rich inventor of the “coffee collar” and Hannah works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they’re still best friends. But then Hannah suddenly travels to Scotland on business for six weeks, and during this separation, Tom realizes that Hannah is the “one.” But alas, when Hannah returns she is not alone, but engaged...
...shadowy halls of the Iraqi National Museum, the remnants of Babylon seem largely forgotten. The carved stone forms of 2,000-year-old rulers are scattered haphazardly throughout a maze of high-ceilinged, dusty halls; their silent expressions barely visible beneath even dustier shrouds of plastic wrap. Not a single tourist graces the building, where cardboard boxes and broken office chairs mingle with the treasure left in disarray...
...gloomy state of Baghdad's national museum comes as no surprise if you know its recent history. During the lawlessness following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the museum, which once housed the world's largest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities, was looted and ransacked beyond recognition. The event saw thousands of artifacts lost to international smuggling. For Iraqis the museum had been a showcase of their country's 7,000-year old heritage and its fate was felt with great bitterness...
...despite the museum's current appearances, not all hope is lost. In fact, events of the past year, and especially recent weeks, would suggest the museum is making a comeback, albeit a slow one. Last week, the Iraqi government celebrated the return by Syrian authorities of more than 700 stolen artifacts, worth millions of dollars. Among them are gold necklaces, daggers, statues and pottery dating from the Islamic period to the Bronze Age. Negotiations with the Syrian government over the pieces took about three years, according to the museum's deputy director, Mahsen Hassan Ali. But it represents the biggest...
Both Lessersohn and Manoogian agree that the new name is merely representative of important restructurings within the museum system...