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...traditional holiday reception for their relatives. On New Year's Day, the resentment boiled over. Some 200 of the 700 inmates seized control of most of the facility's main floor, taking 16 guards and kitchen employees hostage. "We want to be treated like we are somebody, not just trash and animals," one inmate shouted out to police. "We don't want this anymore than...
...played a central role in the British Labour Party's makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable vote-getting machine it has become. But Mandelson is also notoriously Machiavellian and polarizing, well-known for using anonymous briefings to favored journalists to advance himself and trash his enemies. He can be quite taken with his own grandeur. Says a longtime associate: "I always thought he would have made a good Cardinal in 17th century France. He enjoys those European politics of powerful individuals gliding around, not having to worry about elections." Twice, Mandelson had to resign from...
Edward Dolnick, a journalist, centers his story on Charley Hill, a London undercover cop raised mostly in the U.S. who has made a specialty of tracking down purloined Goyas and Bruegels before they are fenced to Bahrain or, worse, ditched in a trash compactor. It's one of Hill's missions in life to disabuse people of the idea that art thieves are cultivated smoothies. "The thieves who steal works of art," he tells us, "were usually stealing hubcaps a few years earlier...
...have already rid my walls of all posters and stripped my shelves of all but the essentials to prepare for the June 10 move-out. Away from the trash pile lie three frames given to me by a Crimson mentor as a tribute to my two years of roving. They are the few items I’ve decided to keep for my apartment in New York next year. Each frame features one roving reporter-style question about me, answered by five witty Crimson friends: “In a wrestling match between Jeni and Summers, who would...
...thrillers - most recently, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Eco is not convinced by Brown's formula: "The whole conspiracy of that plot ... is contained in Foucault's Pendulum. It's all old material that's been covered a thousand times before. Brown was very good at taking trash lying around and turning it into a page turner. But it makes me laugh that people take it seriously." Still, Eco treats lowbrow cultural phenomena with the same seriousness as higher-flown accomplishments. In one essay, for example, he analyzes the essence of Italian society by observing Mike Bongiorno...