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...years after he and Donati sized up the Gardner, Donati teamed up with another old pal of Connor's, David Houghton, and the two of them arranged the heist. One of the questions that has baffled museum officials and investigators is, Why would anyone have bothered with the Napoleon eagle? A capture-the-flag statement? A political message of some type? No, not really. Bobby Donati just liked...
...scholarly manner that impresses crooks and confounds cops. And he doesn't mind saying that on his little tour of the Gardner, he didn't think much of Donati's taste. Among other things, the philistine had his eye on an eagle that topped a battle flag from Napoleon's Imperial Guard. In any event, Connor says he never acted on the urge to rob the Gardner. That's because he walked across the street in Boston's Fenway area and saw a score he liked better. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
...overreaction surrounding "The Lost Museum" is that only one legitimate claim has resulted from the publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that remain in French museums should not be seen as a stain upon France's history, but as a sad testament...
...from behind the scenes, which Jobs (who was exclusively profiled recently in TIME) has in effect been doing since his triumphal return last December. Many among the Macintosh faithful wanted Jobs to assume the mantle of supreme charismatic dictator for life, but up until now he has shunned the Napoleon role to work from the backroom on such "insanely great" things as August's Microsoft deal...
Last week Attorney General Janet Reno praised the Boston project, and the Detroit police department sent officers to learn more about the experience. Detroit's executive deputy chief Benny Napoleon was impressed by the level of interagency coordination. "They're all at the table at the same time, consistently. We would see greater results from trying to duplicate the ways they...