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...meeting was intended to give libraries the chance to determine which library each stolen map was taken from. The New York Public Library, Yale University, the Boston Public Library, and the British Library all claim to be missing maps that Harvard says it is missing.Smiley’s plea agreement lists what maps he stole and from which institutions. But questions of ownership arose after multiple libraries discovered that they had the same maps missing.“Some of the institutions will come up with a longer list of missing items after this meeting,” Brainard...
...guilty to manslaughter and assault, and are now serving a three-year prison term. "The minute the prosecutors had the speed from the 'black box,' they upped the charges to murder," says Richard Slade, whose son Blake was driving the Mercedes. "They had what they needed to force a plea down our throats...
...Musical director Kim Kirkman, 33, whose long hair and goatee fit his role as gondolier Marco, gets his share of giggles, singing female parts in falsetto and doing an improvised dance routine to demonstrate rhythm and emphasis. "We leave you with feelings of plea-sure," he sings, with a sideways jerk of the hips. "Rehearsals are always fun," says accountant Jeanette Oberg, 47, who has a small solo part as Giulia, a peasant girl. "The choir members are always on the alert for anything that can be turned into a joke...
PLEADED GUILTY. Claude Allen, 45, former Bush White House domestic-policy adviser, in a plea agreement, to one misdemeanor count of theft for defrauding Target stores by stealing items and then attempting to get refunds for them; in Rockville, Md. Allen last week ascribed his behavior to job stress and sleep deprivation in dealing with the fallout from Hurricane Katrina...
...Forbes Smiley III. But at least four of those libraries, including the Houghton, are missing copies of the same maps, raising concern that Smiley may have taken more than he has admitted to stealing from seven libraries over a seven-and-a-half year period in a plea bargain he signed in June. The maps missing from Harvard’s collection, for example, overlap with maps missing from collections at the New York Public Library, Yale University, the Boston Public Library, and the British Library, according to Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard...