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There are no reliable statistics on stolen art, since few countries have the motivation or the manpower to compile them. But information from Interpol, which collects data from member nations that volunteer it, helps give a sense of the scope of the problem. According to the most recent Interpol statistics, there were 1,785 reports of artwork stolen from places of worship in 2005, mainly in Italy, France and Russia. While that's only half the number reported stolen from private homes, it's a huge tally compared to the 281 robberies from museums and 232 from art galleries...
...unexpected New Hampshire primary results, a bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers asserted this week that the future of the United States is at risk on an alarming range of deepening domestic and national security fronts and warned that neither party is truly wrestling with the scope of the problems...
...scope of Barack Obama's victory in Iowa has shaken the Clinton machine down to its bolts. Donors are panicking. The campaign has been making a round of calls to reassure notoriously fickle "superdelegates" - elected officials and party regulars who are awarded convention spots by virtue of their titles and positions - who might be reconsidering their decisions to back the candidate who formerly looked like a sure winner. And internally, a round of recriminations is being aimed at her chief strategist, Mark Penn, as the representative of everything about her pseudo-incumbent campaign that has been too cautious, too arrogant...
...degree in political science and received his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He primarily studies Latin America, focusing on informal institutions and organizations, political parties and party change, and political regimes in the context of democratization. But the scope of Levitsky’s often goes beyond his regional interests, according to Eduardo J. Gomez, who served as a teaching fellow for Gov 1295 last semester. “His work on informal institutions and political regimes has really opened up a lot of ideas and interest in how informal politics works...
...case, Brouws certainly does not limit himself to the criticism of urban geography. A billboard advertising “Leave No Child Behind” comprises part of a “discarded landscape.” Photographer and social critic, Brouws ambitiously raises questions far beyond the scope of a generic tea-table photo book, leaving them upended and unanswered, as is the privilege of artists...