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...campaign to demand the return of dozens of objects held by U.S. museums, ancient works that he said had been looted from archaeological digs in his country and smuggled out. In the months that followed, one museum after another went through something like the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross stages of accepting death. They bridled, they denied, they negotiated. Finally, they came to terms. In the case of the Getty, it agreed to return 39 objects in short order but got a temporary reprieve on the goddess until...
...toughest person in your entire career to interview and why? -Narendra Trivedi, Santa Clara, Calif.The feistiest interview I've ever had was with Ross Perot in May of 1992. He was running for the president of the United States and at that time he was leading George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls. He was very combative, very feisty but very engaging. That means it was a very demanding interview from my standpoint because I had to try to elicit information and not get involved in any type of personal exchange. It was a very interesting tight...
...vote in elections? -Ross Jax, DenverI do vote in elections. I am not affiliated with either party. I live in the District of Columbia and so if you do not affiliate with either party you cannot vote in any primary so I only can vote in the general election...
...that it was BAFTA's fault: all it can do is send out the invitations and keep its fingers crossed. There's no excuse, though, for the limp material that host Jonathan Ross, the BBC's high-priced answer to Jay Leno, was tossing out all night. His running gag - that the writers' strike had left him with nothing but a bunch of lame puns - is a shtick Leno used months ago. And it doesn't make sense anyway, since Britain's writers aren't on strike. The evening's evidence does suggest, though, that in sympathy with their...
...hand against them, though, seems to have worked well for their opponents this season—the Bulldogs are allowing Ivy teams to shoot better then 42 percent from long range this season.Yale has developed a double-pronged attack against conference opponents this season, however, with junior forward Ross Morin breaking out, scoring 14.4 points per game against Ivy rivals. He earned his second double-double of the season last weekend, scoring 10 and pulling in 11 rebounds in a loss against league leader Cornell.“They’re a tough team—they have...