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...Securitas case, $3.5 million, enough to turn the heads of many villains, or villains' wives. Most dangerously, you have to physically shift the stolen goods--and the Tonbridge robbers had a lot of baggage to haul around. "If you have £40 million in £50 notes," says Jeffrey Robinson, a security expert and author in London, "you are talking about 800,000 pieces of paper. That would weigh 900 lbs. The immediate problem is, what the hell do you do with...
...presence, like jewels or money. These days, it's easier and safer by far to sit in some semitropical Margaritaville, fire up the laptop and do a bit of identity theft or credit-card fraud. Banks are for those with eyes bigger than their brains. "Bank robbers," says Robinson, "are basically idiots. They went in, and they found £40 million sitting there, and they got greedy. If they had taken £4 million, they could probably have walked away and disappeared." But who'd write a true-crime novel about a miserable four...
...absence of superstars, Delaney-Smith said, the Crimson would opt for balance—and Harvard did just that in Friday’s 77-58 romp over Penn.Eleven players scored in the Crimson’s most balanced output of the season, with senior guard Laura Robinson and sophomore guard Lindsay Hallion leading the charge with 11 points a piece. After an initial slow start, Harvard put together some of its finest team offense of the season, demonstrating flawless ball movement and stepping up the defensive pressure to create transition on offense.“It was a team...
...that title to a group of contrarian believers who were called Cainites because they admired the first murderer, whom they saw as cursed by a cruel God. The 4th century bishop Epiphanius also attacked the text--after which it disappeared from record. "Because it was naughty," says James Robinson, an early-Christianity expert writing a book called The Secrets of Judas, "the orthodox church suppressed it, and it was buried somewhere...
...then, much later, dug up again. Robinson reports that a leather-bound codex containing the alleged 5th century Coptic version was excavated in Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists...