Word: restorationism
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Thieves usually fence their loot for 5% of its "real" value. This robbery will yield nothing like that. The only professional thing about it was its speed. As art thieves, specialists in heisting old paintings under the best conditions for resale or ransom, last week's pair were bunglers. They...
Museum officials said Monday that Mrs. Gardner's collection was only insured for restoration and conservation, not for theft.
-- Across the Soviet Union's Central Asian region, a construction and restoration program is under way that has tripled the number of functioning mosques to 250 since the beginning of 1989.
At a major mosque just opposite the Tashkent headquarters of the Muslim Religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan, a gaggle of Uzbek teenagers fidget through 2 p.m. prayers while their elders scowl at a visiting photographer. At an elegant medieval-era mosque just outside town, young construction volunteers stop...
After Clark's decision last fall, hundreds of students and several alumni and professors gathered for a protest rally in the student center, and more than half the student body later signed a petition calling for the restoration of the positions.