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...warlord to Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister. But his assessment of the precarious hold the new government has on Somalia, after ousting an Islamist regime, is both candid and grim. "The institutions of the T.F.G. [Transitional Federal Government] are very weak," he said in interview with TIME at his villa in Mogadishu. "It's a symbolic government. Permanence we do not have. We do not have institutions; we do not have a credible force. Unless [we receive outside assistance] quickly, we have no chance of building a nation...
Written like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy...
...leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back to Chile, but he spent his last years in a virtual prison of legal assaults and deteriorating health. In October a Chilean judge ordered Pinochet under house arrest on charges related to human rights atrocities at Villa Grimaldi, a detention center outside Santiago run by Pinochet's vicious secret police...
...error occurred while processing this directive] you'd never guess that it's teeming with life. Despite a 97% occupancy rate during my stay (in low season, no less), I sometimes felt I was on my own island. Frangipani, hibiscus and towering coconut palms camouflage the resort's land villas - where a staff of 230 serves up to 150 guests - and sand forms a soft white carpet throughout. This is barefoot country, so leave your heels at home. But don't take quiet to mean boring; Baros is water-sports nirvana. You could easily spend every waking moment in your...
Growing up in Los Angeles, Paris A. Spies-Gans ’09 worked in the education department at the Getty Villa museum and became accustomed to spending much of her time there. When she came to Harvard, however, she found herself longing for that level of involvement with museum life. She found, too, that many of her friends—including her blockmate Anna M. Chen ’09—shared this desire. Together, the two contacted Lynne Stanton, the coordinator of public education at the Harvard University Art Museums. Stanton—who had serendipitously been...