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...still at large. George Gligoris, head of the national police unit that investigates antiquities smuggling, profiles the thieves and explains how he recovers stolen treasures. Why Byzantine icons? They're a hot commodity. Only a few are left, so demand is high. What's the profile of an antiquities thief? There are three types. The first is basically anyone - from a herdsman to a fisherman - who stumbles on something ancient and refuses to hand it over to the state. The second is more refined. He acts as a go-between, buying the looted items and marketing them to the third...
Harvard College Library (HCL) administrators are staying mum about the results of an Aug. 7 meeting between HCL and several other libraries who have had maps stolen from their collections by map thief E. Forbes Smiley III.Federal authorities were also present at the meeting at Yale University, which was held to determine ownership of the 97 maps that Smiley has admitted to stealing over a seven-year period.HCL Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard said that the meeting was positive and productive, but that the libraries agreed not to comment on the meeting’s proceedings. Harvard will...
...them, yet during his life he got nothing like their peer recognition, receiving not so much as an Oscar nomination for his directorial work. A more appropriate Mann would be Michael, whose big-screen version of his Miami Vice TV series opens this weekend. The haunted tough guys of Thief and Heat occupy a Southern California nightscape within hailing distance of the one that Anthony Mann's antiheroes crawled through in the '40s. Yet film noir was just one of the genres our guy vivified and perfected...
...Mann's name isn't on He Walked by Night, a film that had a lot to do with restoring his reputation. Alfred Werker directed most of this exemplary procedural, in which L.A. cops track a clever thief (Richard Basehart) who robs electronics stores to get the parts for state-of-the-art radios, and who eventually kills a cop and is tracked into the city sewers. But "Mann's contribution was considerable," the Basinger book tells us. "It seems that he did the location filming with Richard Basehart, the final sequence of his flight through the sewers, the night...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...