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...problem is not confined to Pittsburgh. In 2007, a woman in Scranton, Pa., was cited for yelling obscenities at an overflowing toilet in her home - a tirade overheard by her neighbor, an off-duty police officer. She was later acquitted on constitutional grounds, and the city paid her a $19,000 settlement. "We probably handle a dozen of these cases every year," Walczak says. "We're actually negotiating with the state police right now, trying to force them to change their training and written materials to make clear you can't do this...
...Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of the Allied Forces dedicated themselves to recovering Europe's pillaged treasures. Without vehicles of their own, these so-called Monuments Men - mostly middle-aged art historians, curators and museum directors - hitchhiked through Europe following clues they gleaned from, among other things, conversations overheard at the dentist, interviews behind enemy lines and Nazi records recovered from bombed-out cathedrals. By 1951, they had restituted 5 million objects - including 5,000 church bells the Nazis had planned to melt down. (See pictures of Adolf Hitler's rise to power...
Before the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, I overheard our three contestants talking before the show. They were saying, You know what we should do to throw Alex off his game? We should take our trousers off. So I took my trousers off, and I walked out without pants. And that really blew them away...
Schmidt, Representative Jean • previous disavowal by of birther beliefs is belied by overheard restatement by of those very beliefs...
...book you describe how the Monuments Men used recovered records, overheard conversations and diaries to track down various works. What was their main tactic? They would go around and interrogate people. They would look for museum directors and curators and ask where pieces of art were. They'd hear vague things like, "Well, the last time we saw it the armies were going east," or "The Nazis came and said 'We're taking these works to safeguard them' " - a very utilitarian word to describe theft and robbery. Eventually they started finding people who knew things, and those people would send...