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...have spirited away at least 20 bronze sculptures, each weighing half a ton or more. On Jan. 10, at a university campus in Roehampton, a 2.2-m-tall sculpture weighing one-third of a ton by the British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million - far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted, using a stolen flatbed crane, from the grounds of the late artist's foundation in Hertfordshire. William Webber...
...draws a line between the intuitive skaters of yesterday and the more technical, all-around stars of tomorrow. And you need look no further than the trio of American women headed to Torino--Cohen, Meissner and Michelle Kwan--to know that this changing of the guard is well under...
...very pleased with TIME's choice of the "Good Samaritans," Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono, as your Persons of the Year [Dec. 26, 2005--Jan. 2, 2006]. Those three have been successful in breaking through people's apathy about worldwide poverty that kills millions every year. The trio is waking us up to the world's problems. Here is a son who lost a mother because of AIDS. There is a father who lost a daughter to malaria. How can we be indifferent to those sorrows? The Gateses and Bono are pioneers, leading us to end that injustice. ALISA...
...plan was crafted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her French, German and British counterparts. The E.U. trio requested a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, now set for Feb. 2, to consider referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council. If the case goes there, the allies plan a three-step approach: first, a mild resolution exhorting Tehran to end its questionable atomic activity voluntarily. If after two or three months Iran remains intransigent, they would then propose a stronger Security Council order based on the U.N.'s authority to combat threats to international peace. Step three...
...travel was once strictly limited by the Soviet government. Gutman will be accompanied by her son, violinist Slava Moroz and pianist Dmitri Shteinberg in a program of four pieces: Brahms’ “Sonata N.1 E Minor,” Arensky’s “Trio in D Minor, Op. 32,” Schumann’s “Five Pieces in Folk-style, Op. 102,” and Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio N.2 in E Minor.”Gutman writes in a translated e-mail that...