Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poetry board members of The Harvard Advocate discovered the bizarre theft of their fireplace mantlepiece during a meeting yesterday, according to executive board member Connie...
Advocate members said they realized a theft had occurred when the back door of the building--normally bolted--was discovered open. A stereo was also missing, You said...
...story in Monday's Crimson told a tale of simple honesty, a refreshing change in a year in which a multitude of student thefts came to light. Paul K. Kim '96 and Vanessa V. Gil '97 returned $3,000 they found in the street to its owner, Tommy's House of Pizza. To take the money would have been the easiest and safest from of theft imaginable, a great reward for little effort, virtually untraceable...
...course they were not: the Allied committees restored the art to its rightful owners as fast as possible after the war, whereas the Russians refused to. The catalog affects pained astonishment that the Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it. Piotrovski insists in his catalog preface that the show "is not being held to make a point in an argument but is rather an event in the life of the arts." Well and good, but the argument will...
...theory, the principle ought to be easy. Looting is wrong, looters have no legal title to the things they steal, and the descendants of those looters do not gain such title merely because a half-century has closed behind the theft. There is not a single object--not a book, not a letter, not a musical manuscript, a drawing, a painting or a vase--that the Russian forces of occupation ripped off from the museums and private collections of Germany and Eastern Europe that should remain, seen or unseen, in Russian hands. And the same goes for what the Germans...