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...brazen heist took place at 4:30 in the afternoon, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Thieves Nab Cezanne Masterwork | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...Calderón spoke about his administration’s progress against drugs and organized crime, saying that his government has captured over 22,000 criminals and seized over “one billion personal doses” of drugs over the past year, his first of six in office. He also added that Mexico has re-planted 600,000 acres of forest in the past year, starting to reverse a national trend of de-forestation...

Author: By Mark D. Hoadley and Josh M. Zagorsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Calderón Visit Sparks Protests | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...Their relationship continues beyond the ivory tower. Frankel said he visited Calderón in Puerto Vallarta in 2001 and spoke at a conference held by Calderón’s party, adding that he was impressed with Calderón’s work as president...

Author: By Mark D. Hoadley and Josh M. Zagorsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Calderón Visit Sparks Protests | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...first times I walked into Memorial Hall, I looked up and saw the name of someone I knew quite well—someone whose papers I’d read, whose death I knew all about,” said Faust, who spoke beneath the seals of Harvard’s 11 schools that ring the Coop’s balcony...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Presents New Book At Coop | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...Louisiana, where Obama spoke before a crowd of 5,000 on Thursday, more than 40% of registered Democrats are African American, a constituency Obama has consistently won by large margins. Nebraska's caucuses are likely to be similar to those held Tuesday in North Dakota and Kansas - Republican-leaning states with small but dedicated Democratic bases that have gone for Obama. Obama also rallied a crowd of 10,000 in Omaha on Thursday, while the only attention the state is seeing from a Clinton was a visit at the same time by first daughter Chelsea. And in Washington State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Weekend to Win | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

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