Word: stoles
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Though no one doubts that it was Peruggia who actually stole the painting, to this day there are questions as to whether he had help that night or if he was working for bigger operators. This is where both books dive headfirst into a huge pile of baloney. In 1932 a swashbuckling American journalist named Karl Decker published a piece in the Saturday Evening Post, in which he wrote that in 1914 in Morocco, he met an aristocratic con man, Marqués Eduardo de Valfierno, who told him that he had masterminded the theft as part of a scheme...
...junior Melissa Schellberg who came up with the big hit, blasting a 2-RBI double to left center.Freshman Whitney Shaw reached on base after being hit by a pitch, and an infield single off the bat of junior Jen Francis induced an error that sent Shaw to third. Francis stole second to set the stage for Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor. After Schellberg cleared the bases, Bock brought her home on a single up the middle, putting the Crimson up for good, 4-3. “We stayed really focused and, if anything, we were more...
...room at Hilton's new luxury Denizen brand. Starwood, the parent company of the W, St. Regis and Westin brands, is suing Hilton Hotels and its global luxury brand head, Ross Klein - who was also the former head of luxury brands at Starwood - for corporate espionage, contending that Klein stole proprietary company documents from Starwood and used them to help launch Hilton's new brand in just 9 months, instead of the usual three to five years. According to Starwood, it received boxes of Starwood documents and electronic files from Hilton just days before the Denizen announcement, which alerted Starwood...
...fishermen, but just poor folk seeking their fortune. Right now, they hold 18 cargo ships and some 300 sailors hostage - the work of a sophisticated and well-funded operation. A few pirates have offered testimony to the international press - a headline in Thursday's Times of London read, "They stole our lobsters: A Somali pirate tells his side of the story" - but Lehr and other Somali experts express their doubts. "Nowadays," Lehr says, "this sort of thing is just a cheap excuse." The legacy of nearly twenty years of inaction and abuse, though, is far more costly...
...Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican progress, the economy held its own. Politically, the election of the conservative Vicente Fox as President in 2000 - a mere 12 years after the PRI almost certainly stole the presidency from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the candidate of the left - marked a decisive break with the past and signaled that Mexico had become a mature democracy...