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...collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy's most nefarious art dealer. With one of the book's main players, Marion True, the J. Paul Getty Museum's former antiquities curator, on trial for conspiring to purchase stolen antiquities, and Medici challenging a 1995 Rome conviction that sentenced him to 10 years in prison, even the timing of this book is a work of art. - By Anthee Carassava 9. Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World...
...DIED. Paul Arizin, 78, NBA Hall of Famer and a pioneer of the jump shot; in Springfield, Pa. The Villanova All-American developed the now ubiquitous shot in high school, where games were often played on slippery dance floors. "When I tried to hook, my foot would go out from under me, so I jumped," he once said. "I was always a good jumper...
What's the word on the street? With the help of Paul McFedries of Word Spy.com and Aaron Peckham of Urban Dictionary, we drew up a list of neologisms that got people talking...
Happily, even before the deal was finalized, some of the heat had gone out of the controversy. At a hearing at the French Parliament in June to which Mittal was invited, one deputy, Paul Giacobbi, described the personal attacks as "shameful" and said they did not represent the view of France. And Patrick Ollier, the head of the finance committee, said that the Parliament "has had the opportunity to get to know a great European captain of industry...
...happened. The president of Wallonia has called the TV event an "unacceptable" breach of journalistic ethics, especially for a state-owned channel. "We didn't intend to create such an emotion, but rather to raise a real question that preoccupies citizens who are attached to Belgium," says Jean-Paul Philippot, the chief administrator of Belgian state television, after having been called on the carpet by the responsible minister. The citizens who are more interested in loosening the ties to Belgium - up to 80% of Flemings, depending on how the question is posed - will be watching to see whether their compatriots...