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...government has so far followed the Committee's advice in all cases, some 75 percent favorably resolved for the claimants. "They've made a big effort to make right what was done wrong," says Joel Cahen, Director of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Ministry of Culture spokesman Bob van het Klooster says people can submit claims indefinitely, although they expect the Katz' are the last of the big claims. "There aren't any more big art dealers left who had to flee...
...sell art throughout the war, even if from Basel, Switzerland, where Nathan moved his family in 1942. Many of their dealings were with Nazi art procurer Alois Miedl, who bought art for Hermann Goering and others. "Everyone says Nathan Katz's sales were voluntary, that he collaborated," says Cees van Hoore, a reporter for the Haarlems Dagblad who broke the story of the Katz claim last week. "But no one can explain why Nathan fled to Switzerland. What would have happened if he hadn't sold them...
...Long exposure to action movies has helped audiences become their own Crime Scene experts, appraising the kick of an explosion, the roll of a vehicle after it's been blown up. Connoisseurs will savor an insurgent attack on the FBI team's van, a shootout between the Americans and the terrorists in a Riyadh neighborhood (when the missiles fly, you'll duck!), and the final faceoff in an apartment building. It fulfills the holy law of action movies: stuff blows up great...
Democrats intend to introduce the bill again and again between now and the 2008 elections. "Children's health care will be a defining issue this cycle," says Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Congressman whose job is to help elect more Democratic candidates. "Republicans either stand with 10 million American kids or with President Bush." For Republicans looking to change the subject from Iraq, this probably wasn't what they had in mind...
...months. Summer tourism naturally accounts for part of the phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed in Mies van der Rohe’s great modernist shell—gutted its permanent collection and put up a massively advertised show of French impressionist and post-impressionist art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Tickets were expensive and lines were long, but Berliners flocked...