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...solve these cases in a country like Greece, where almost every household holds some ancient relic or icon? It's impossible to monitor every inch of the country. But we have a good network of informants. We're busting cases daily. Your investigations forced the J. Paul Getty Museum to relinquish a number of looted Greek works. Who's next? I've collected enormous amounts of information in the five years I've headed this operation. You can bet we'll be seeing more repatriations in the near future...
...would also mark a rapid rise for a politician who didn't run for office until she was 47. Pelosi grew up in a prominent political family in Baltimore, Md. Her father was the mayor for almost her entire childhood. After college, Pelosi and her husband Paul moved to New York City and then to San Francisco, where she became a leading Democratic fund raiser, then chairwoman of the party in California. But she waited until the youngest of her five children was a high school senior before she ran for Congress...
...Washington, Pelosi became popular for her prodigious fund raising on behalf of colleagues and her gracious manners; she's often the first person to send flowers if a member's spouse is sick. Staffers also enjoy her largesse. After a lavish meal, she will sometimes say, "Thank God for Paul Pelosi," her investment-banker husband, whose real estate holdings make up much of the couple's $16 million in assets...
...From A Home in the Field by Paul Cuadros. Copyright 2006 Paul Cuadros. To be published by Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers...
Migrants from Mexico and Latin America are transforming the American south. In his new book A Home on the Field, TIME reporter Paul Cuadros chronicles one town's decision to start up a soccer team in its increasingly Hispanic public school - and how that team struggled not only to win acceptance among the Anglo establishment but also on a playing field dominated by white soccer organizations who looked at them as interlopers. The story is a deeply personal one. Cuadros himself helped to found and coached the team, taking a bunch of young street footballers from Jordan-Matthewes High School...