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The academic turned antiquities dealer who exposed the theft of hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum has died aged 61.Dr Ittai Gradel, from Denmark, alerted the British Museum and the police after he was able to buy dozens of…
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In a faculty meeting last year at Purchase College in New York, a colleague in the administration referred to students as "consumers." It was a casual statement, and I pushed back. The exchange was brief, but it has deeply…
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Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts. But actors from all quarters of the profession are still flocking to New York for the kind of substantive material…
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“They’ve got the books, and I (have no) desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it does not work anymore. But less than two years before, … they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time.…
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Known as the Zimbabwe Bird, it has long been a symbol of national identity, but behind it lies a complex tale of displacement, colonial plunder and restitution. – BBC (MSN) The post Zimbabwe’s Plundered Iconic Stone Birds…
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The Vegas Sphere. Image: Nigel Hoult on Wikimedia This week we picked a story from the Wall Street Journal about the Vegas Sphere, which by all accounts delivers a spectacular experience. The project was built for $2.3 billion, about…
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A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the earliest surviving poem in the English language – has been discovered in Rome.Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript…
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Shortly after I received my new work laptop, I became extremely frustrated with Microsoft OneDrive, which wanted me to save everything to the cloud. It seemed impossible to save any documents to the hard drive. After a few…
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