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...Leng. “Somebody who was drunk said, ‘I hate that thing,’ and just took it down,” proposed Joseph F. Medioli ’08, citing the frequent weekend parties in Currier as perfect opportunities for inebriated art thieves. Wellington W. Sculley ’08, another Currier resident, claimed to know whodunit but refused to reveal any names. “It’s like Currier’s DaVinci Code,” Schmitt said. As of yesterday, the case remained unresolved...
With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is Bic Runga. In 2002, a year before Westenra hit her high notes, this Maori-Chinese singer-songwriter took the simple guitar hooks of Drive to a new level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance...
...DIED. WELLINGTON MARA, 89, legendary longtime owner of the New York Giants and Hall of Fame patriarch of the National Football League; in Rye, N.Y. By agreeing to a key deal in 1961 allowing all teams, many in considerably smaller markets, to split TV profits, Mara--who joined the Giants as a water boy at age 9 when his father bought the team for $500--ensured the competition, stability and survival of the now formidable NFL. Reserved but paternal, he paid former Giants players' medical bills, employed veterans as scouts and over 80 years attended most practices and almost every...
LAWRENCE GOLDSMITH Wellington, New Zealand
Levi attempts authenticity by hanging with Carl, a spoken-word genius straight from the city’s depths, and a gang of angry Haitians who sell knock-off Prada and CD’s, three for $10. Returning to Wellington, he sees the school: “The pristine white spires of the college seemed to him like the watchtowers of a prison to which he was returning.” Levi tries to escape, but Smith fails to specify where, and if, he finds a better home...