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...like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady 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...
...default. But this Chicago-born Jay-Z protégé relies on orchestral swells far more than beats, and his subjects range from an indictment of rap fantasies ("Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool/ We need a few more half-naked women up in the pool") to a gentle skateboard romance as innocent and sincere as Annette Funicello...
...another minute! Get up off the couch right now! Study hard, party a lot, get a Netflix membership—do whatever makes you happy. Never again will you have so much free time. Never again will your parents be subsidizing your alcohol purchases. Never again will the dating pool be so young and attractive. It’s been a semester of ups and downs, and as an amateur advice-giver, I’ve tried to strike a balance between being helpful and being entertaining. Perhaps at times, I’ve been neither...
...said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation of their own self-worth. Today, that tiny pool of money has grown into an enormous reservoir of hope and dignity for millions of people the world over...
...wait. It's all right. It's good news. Two blue dolphins were choking on plastic they ate off the side of their aquarium pool, and no medical instrument could access the blockage. So, for a change, something sensible was done. The world's tallest man, all seven-foot-nine of him, was summoned - from the flock (of what, yaks?) he was herding in Inner Mongolia. His great long arm reached in past the gag reflex, grabbed the plastic and pulled it out! Mission accomplished...