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...that allegedly stripped hundreds of temples and monuments of sculptures and frescoes, then sent them on to be sold to collectors in the U.S. and Europe; Cambodian cops seized several truckloads of priceless Khmer sculptures crudely ripped from archaeological sites in Banteay Meanchey province; and Chinese officials uncovered the theft of 158 pieces of religious statuary from a collection lent to a museum in Chengde by the Forbidden City's Palace Museum in Beijing. Over the past five years, at least 220,000 ancient Chinese tombs have been broken into, according to estimates from China's National Cultural Relics Bureau...
...think he stole the election. Yes, yes, we're told to "get over it," and we've been pretty damned gracious. But we can't help it: this still rankles. What rankles especially is Bush's almost total lack of grace about the extraordinary way he took office. Theft aside, he indisputably got fewer votes than the other guy, our guy. We expected some soothing bipartisan balm. There was none, even after 9/11. (Would it have been that hard to appoint a Democrat as head of Homeland Security, in a "bring us together" spirit...
...rise in campus theft runs counter to a 1 percent decrease in property crime in Cambridge. According to the Cambridge Police Department, violent crime rose by 6 percent...
Harvard’s theft levels appear to be astronomical when compared to other area schools as well as the other Ivies. According to the Clery Act statistics, in 2001, Tufts University reported 23 campus thefts; Boston University, 58; and New Haven’s Yale University...
...We’re in a position where our theft rate looks much higher than every other school around,” Catalano said. “Ours is probably not much different if [other schools] included the larcenies. But the reason we put in both numbers is so you can get a feel for the true nature of theft at Harvard...