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...surprise that somebody finally eloped with her? On the morning of Aug. 21, 1911, Mona Lisa - arguably the world's most famous picture - was stolen from the Louvre. Who took her, how and why, is all part of the story told in two new books this spring. Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti (Knopf; 239 pages) sticks closely to the case and relates it luxuriously. In places it reads like a prose poem with narrative gallop. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Little, Brown...
...time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year. "In any context," says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, "that is a staggering...
...contests doubly important for the home team.Brown boasts a powerful lineup capable of doing some damage to the young Crimson pitching staff, beginning with senior center fielder Steve Daniels.Daniels—a former Ivy League Rookie of the Year—is a prototypical leadoff man, having stolen an incredible 73 bases in his career.Leading the team in both slugging and on-base percentages is cleanup hitter Pete Greskoff. The sophomore first baseman made the Ivy League honor roll this week for his two-home run performance in the series against Dartmouth.But Harvard too received representation on the honor...
...players may have pretended to be David Ortiz or Kevin Youkilis in the batter’s box, but on the basepaths they looked more like Jacoby Ellsbury. Stolen bases were key to the Harvard victory in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Yale, and yesterday they kept the Crimson in the game...
...Police had found her DNA on items ranging from a cookie to a heroin syringe to a stolen car. They had put a $400,000 reward on her head. Profilers from around Europe were called in to help hunt her down. The police even consulted diviners and fortune-tellers in hopes of discovering her identity. The papers declared the case "the most mysterious serial crime of the past century." (See pictures of fighting crime...