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...frenzy, the thief yanked the frame downward to snap the wires that held it. Mary Vassiliou, a tourist from New Jersey who witnessed the robbery, told TIME, "It looked like he was crazy. He was banging it against the wall. Then he got it off the wall, and he was banging it on the floor." Witnesses say the same man next went after The Scream, which he ripped in the same brutal way from the partition--not even a solid wall--it was hung on. "They dragged them and twisted them and did all sorts of things," says museum director...
...aide-de-camp and deputy chief of staff, Igor Sechin, was named chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned oil company, Rosneft. Sechin, 43, has no known experience in the oil business. Rosneft would not comment on the appointment. But the company is poised to snap up some or all of the pieces of Yukos at the state-run sale expected to follow Yukos' demise. "The appointment of Putin's closest and most secretive lieutenant as head of Rosneft is a sign that Putin has set out to take over the Russian oil industry," charges Economist Mikhail...
...DIED. ARTURO TOLENTINO, 94, vice-presidential running mate to late dictator Ferdinand Marcos during the Philippines' fraud-riddled 1986 snap elections; in Quezon City, Philippines. The vote led to the famous "people power" revolt against the Marcos regime and eventually to the dictator's ouster and exile. Months afterward, Tolentino declared himself President, and soldiers loyal to him took over the Manila Hotel. The Tolentino regime lasted only two days...
...KNOW THE HALF OF IT This picture of Mercury is a mosaic of 500 frames taken by Mariner 10, which saw only half the planet up close during its three flybys. The Hubble Space Telescope has not dared to snap some pictures of its own (training its gaze so close to the sun could fry its electronics) MESSENGER will need just 12 hours to complete an orbit of Mercury. With the planet spinning slowly below, it should be able to survey the entire surface within six months...
...would be new additions to the litany of intifadeh attacks. But the assaults never came. If Hamas couldn't unleash a wave of terror after losing its two top men, Israelis figured their army and security services must have been able to rein in the threat. Cafes began to snap back to life...