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...longer than an Old Testament genealogy and much more credible. But the givebacks of recent years are just part of an accelerating worldwide struggle over the past. It has complications brought to the table by archaeologists, who say any commercial market for antiquities is an incentive to looters who plunder archaeological sites. And then there's the ordinary museumgoer, who has a crucial stake--being able to see the widest spectrum of culture that humankind has produced. Among all these bristling claimants to the past, is it possible to strike a balance between protecting history and unfolding it, between safeguarding...
...Industrial fisheries are now going thousands of miles, thousands of feet deep and catching things that live hundreds of years in the least protected place on Earth. They are roving bandits using state of the art technologies to plunder," says Elliott Norse, president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute...
...even more pressure on the Pentagon to clean up its oversight. Not only is the military dispatching a high-powered investigative team to Iraq to look into past malfeasance, but it's also creating a senior Army panel to examine what systemic problems may be contributing to the plunder. No evidence has yet surfaced that the missing arms or ammo ended up in the hands of the various militias and insurgent groups that have been battling U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies. But the lack of accountability comes just as some of those Iraqis--and police forces...
...protagonists - respectively, a math whiz obsessed by the number 216 and a heroin addict with a possessive (and understandably perplexed) mom. Instantly, anybody could see that Aronofsky was one of the few American filmmakers who saw the cinema past as a jumping-off point, not a toy store to plunder. His films were full of promise; and more, they delivered on their promises...
...someone who sees most of the movies that most interest him in venues other than traditional theaters, I can't disagree. I plunder the treasures at Kim's, a Manhattan video chain that embraces both the ineffable and the unspeakable - Kenji Mizoguchi and Jesus Franco. And I scan the Internet for films other people may think of as obscure, and I call essential. Who knows what the Essential Art House movies of the next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th...