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...well-known that Harvard had a truckload of talented sophomores--Keiko Iwahara, Jennifer Steffen and Sandie Stringfellow, to name a few--and strong senior leadership in the form of Carrie Miller and co-captains Laura Koerckel and Sarah Durkin. The only question was, could it all be put together...
There it stayed until the end of World War II, when the advancing Red Army arrived in Berlin in 1945 and confiscated art by the truckload. The world believed Schliemann's gold was lost. Curators at the Pushkin knew better. It wasn't until 1991, however, that Russian art historians Grigorii Kozlov and Konstantin Akinsha, who had ferreted out the existence of the artifacts, announced the discovery to the West. It took two more years for the Pushkin and the Russian government to fess...
...show's gems are those instances of extreme behavior which powerfully telegraph Kron's peculiarities, such as that memorable workday when she decides to come out at work via an inter-office memo. Or better yet, when she gets sucked into buying a truckload of Prescriptives cosmetics by a very heavily made-up saleswoman who has what Kron calls the Shroud of Turin effect going on--then pays for the cosmetics with the office's petty cash supply. An expensive and traumatic four-hour lunch break just to find out she's an autumn...
...asking what was needed and offering plastic bags and boxes full of everything from infant formula to flashlight batteries, food and paper goods. A sporting- goods store in Stillwater shipped every single one of its kneepads to the rescuers scouring the wreckage. Nearby Tinker Air Force Base sent a truckload of helmet lights...
Much of the "truckload" of evidence seized by the federal, state and local authorities has been shipped to the Northeastern University police department for identification and labeling...