| Man held over robbery at art museum in Nara
NARA--A 65-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing three works of art worth a total of 348 million yen from the Shohaku Art Museum in Nara at about 1:55 a.m. Saturday. Takuji Murakami of Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, tried to resist arrest by threatening police officers with a crowbar, with which he hit and slightly injured one of the officers. None of the artworks were damaged in the altercation. The police said Murakami climbed up a ladder to the balcony of the museum and broke into the building. A security firm alerted the police after detecting the break-in. The artworks included a folding screen painted by Shoen Uemura (1875-1949) worth about 300 million yen. The other works were a hanging scroll, also by Shoen, worth 28 million yen, and a painting by Shoen's oldest son, Shoko (1902-2001), valued at 20 million yen.
Thousands Protest Iraq War Across US
Mention of the hundreds of protests everywhere have not made it beyond places like CommonDreams. Our Orlando protest news will have to wait until participants return to town with their photos. The disdain of Brush Off Bush doesn't mean we don't gall the hell out of him. Muslims who've had their babies, brothers, sisters, parents, and other family members killed by our bombs and bullets need to see us on the streets. Let's not criticize each other or allow the infiltrators to dampen the spirit of rebellion. When the government doesn't listen to the people, the people have a constitutional right to join together in an insurrection. My Congressmen write me back and tell me why I have to change, why I have to support the Bush Way.
An early look at Cunard's Queen Victoria
ABOARD THE QUEEN VICTORIA -- Okay, so you've seen my rant on the new Queen Victoria's cabin decor. What's my take on the rest of the ship? In short: It's charming. Smaller than Cunard's much-ballyhooed, four-year-old Queen Mary 2, the 90,000-ton Victoria has an intimacy and feel much more reminiscent of the soon-to-retire Queen Elizabeth 2, something that surely will please long-time Cunarders who found the 150,000-ton QM2 a tad too big and impersonal. The 2,014-passenger Victoria, to be christened later today by the Duchess of Cornwall, also is elegant. Cunard president Carol Marlow tells us the line looked to the great Cunard liners of the past to set the tone, with classical motifs mixed with art deco and nouveau touches that evoke the golden age of ship travel.
Yale student, professor George Hersey dies at 80
Some students complain at graduation about leaving Yale's halls for the outside world, but during his half-century at the University, George Hersey GRD '54 found a solution to this problem: He never left. Hersey, who died Oct. 23 at the age of 80, spent over half his life as a member of the Yale community — first as student, then professor and finally as director of graduate studies for the History of Art Department. An authority on a wide variety of art and architectural history, Hersey was particularly renowned for his knowledge of Italian Renaissance architecture and sculpture, colleagues said. During the 47 years between 1951 and 1998, Hersey spent only five years away from the Yale campus, serving as a professor at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., from 1954 to 1959.
Development won’t spare bowling alley
Dueling proposals to build an art museum or a history museum at Presidio National Park have at least one thing in common: Both projects would demolish a 10-pin bowling center, halving the number of bowling lanes in San Francisco from 24 to 12. Presidio trustees have received two proposals to build a museum at Montgomery and Moraga streets in the Presidio. Gap founder Don Fisher wants to build a public museum for his contemporary art collection, and the Presidio Historical Association wants a local history museum. Either project would demolish the 12-lane Presidio Bowling Center. Nearly 1,000 people use the center for league events organized by the Golden Gate Sport and Social Club, according to general manager Michael Murphy. Opened in late 1988, the center uses pin-setting equipment previously used by the Army at its Presidio bowling alleys, owner Victor Meyerhoff said.
Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely
The first was a problem with a rotary joint that keeps the right-side arrays facing the sun. Engineers had noticed the joint was vibrating oddly and using too much power; during the second spacewalk, Daniel M. Tani removed a cover from the joint and peeked in, and found that it was fouled with metal shavings, suggesting that some part of the joint was grinding itself down. Mission managers decided to use the fourth spacewalk to thoroughly examination of the joint. But on Tuesday, as astronauts inside the station opened the newly-relocated solar array, a guide wire snagged on one of the folding panels� hinges and tore two holes in the 110-foot-long array. The spacewalk plans were then changed again, this time to be devoted to a high-stakes, high-risk attempt to repair the torn array.
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