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...kits to all its customers. Stuck on the frame of a painting or at the base of a statue, the tiny dots are almost invisible to the naked eye and each is imprinted with a unique number linking the artwork with its church. Meanwhile, Interpol recently proposed a scheme to insert identity chips into religious works, which would allow agents to track them if they ended up with auction houses or dealers...
...tragic case. [Plotkin]’s a Harvard grad who gets a Goldman job and has a good career,” Little said of the former Lowell House resident. “He was working very hard while his friend Pajcin was running around with this scheme...
...Unfortunately, the federal sentencing guidelines are harsh,” he added. “Since he got the bottom of the range, he got as good as was available with the present scheme...
...Good point. But why, then, some pundits have responded, isn't Sarkozy himself being graded in the scheme? Might an official presidential evaluation confirm accusations from his political detractors that the President's much-ballyhooed reform effort has so far produced slim results...
...cabinet in order to give himself and France the best chance of succeeding," Duhamel says. He says the idea of grading ministers was actually pushed by Fillon, despite Sarkozy's wariness it would create more tension in a cabinet already prone to division. "In the end, they realized the scheme will create pressure, but it also provides a useful for measuring reform progress and competency," says Duhamel. "That's entirely new in French politics...