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Saving Beauty Looking like a cross between a very disorganized museum and the world's most expensive rummage sale, the vault at the OCBC's Paris headquarters is filled with stolen art that the team has recovered in recent months. Items from churches - including statues, lecterns, wooden pews, and bronze busts that belong in the Père-Lachaise cemetery - are packed on shelves, stacked against the walls and spread across the floor. Alongside them are hundreds of pieces taken from museums, galleries, libraries, archaeological sites and private homes: paintings by Renoir and Courbet, sculptures by Rodin, lamps...
...That anything is left at all is in large part due to the efforts of museum director Omar Khan Massoudi, his staff, and a small group of concerned archeologists and politicians. In 1988, they secretly moved the highlights of the collection to a vault in the Central Bank at the presidential palace. Massoudi, who risked his life to preserve his country's cultural heritage, was one of seven men who had keys to the vault. All seven keys were needed to open it, so by spreading them around and keeping their locations secret (in case of death, a key reverted...
...first time running the event, sophomore Justin Grinstead took third in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:05.69. Co-captain Alex Obrecht placed second in the shot put with a throw of 14.69 meters, and freshman Sean Gil took second in the pole vault by clearing 4.75 meters. On the women’s end, junior Becky Christensen again won the high jump. Christensen, an All-American who took 10th at NCAA Championships last season, also automatically qualified for the IC4A Championships with her jump of 1.75 meters. The final individual winner...
...that should bolster last year’s point totals, which were often harmed by Harvard’s inability to field competitors in all events. Some freshmen to watch include Dina Emde in the high jump, Brian Hill in middle distance events, and John McVey in the pole vault, as all three had strong outings last weekend.—BRAD HINSHELWOODWith two events under its belt—the East Stroudsburg Open and the Cliff Keen LA Invitational—the Harvard wrestling team travels to Hofstra this weekend for its first dual meet of the season...
...Gone were the days when spymasters would come to the White House for morning coffee and whisper the latest intelligence to the President, and the rest of the world would find out decades later, only after numerous Freedom of Information requests had prized the buried treasure from the CIA vault. Now the latest intelligence evaluations were being announced worldwide, nearly in real time. "It's just mind-boggling," a former CIA officer told me. "The impact of the Iraq WMD fiasco is coming home to roost. The intelligence community was badly burned by that. And the various players never want...