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...A fine example — Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief, on the life and crimes of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole Renaissance and early Baroque art from more than 200 museums, stashing paintings in mother’s house...
...meetings (and what’s changed about them) — The US military isn’t that concerned about war with Iran (The Intercept) — The southern gap (Aeon) — NYC’s Hudson Yards vessel reopening (The Guardian) — Amicus Thief...
...What follows is an obstacle-laden odyssey in which John makes a new friend in a taciturn, traumatised car thief (Stephanie Beatriz) and plenty of enemies....
...But there is more to The Good Thief than merely a collection of cartoonish set pieces....
...“We urge the US to adopt a responsible attitude in cyber space and not to play a game of the thief crying ‘stop thief’,” foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian added....
...Some of the music, like a suite from The Book Thief, felt thin without the film context, but “Adventures on Earth” from ET was powerful, maybe Williams’ best music....
...Pinned to the entryway was an American flag and taped to the security glass by the register was a handwritten sign that read: “It is haram to buy from thiefs.”...
...And then he becomes a copper thief. And the story kind of charts why someone would choose to go into such a dangerous enterprise....
...It is a turbocharged thief of time....
...Still, his biographer is a high-end operator: Michael Mann, poet of neon and dark nights in films from Thief to Heat to Miami Vice. The director seems a neat fit for high-performance cars....
Reporter Monica Mark tells Lilah about the brutal life of a South African copper thief
...Having rejected the role of psychotic gangster Don Logan (played unimprovably by Ben Kingsley), retired thief Gal Dove was a more muted and melancholy twist on the career criminal....
...“Every time, the opposition cries ‘thief!’, but . . . they’ve all came to compete [in the election]. If there was no chance for them to win, they wouldn’t have come....
...The wobbly man, the sloping man, and the thief: the woman who’s always stealing things. She’s in prison now. My favourite building is the Natural History Museum because it is so magnificent....
...too stolidly executed to quite manage the balance of insight, hard fact and true-crime thrills, but at the very least it serves as a reminder not to open any dubious attachments — and, if you’re a cyber-thief...
...Dear Thief (2014) maps the shifting geometries of a love triangle. The Western Wind (2018) is a medieval whodunnit probing the motives of village residents....
...A thief is a thief. And that’s what you call them. They’re an organised crime group — the biggest criminal organisation in the world — called ‘the state’. Why should I treat them any other way?”...
...The manner of the internment would indicate the fall from grace of a convicted thief who rose from hot dog seller to become the owner of one of Putin’s preferred St Petersburg restaurants and a Kremlin caterer...
...In one recent incident, he managed to grab a stolen jacket from a thief, under which were two pairs of trousers snatched from the charity shop next door, prompting an immediate reaction from the thief....
...The Nowhere Thief by Alice M Ross (Nosy Crow)The FT’s deputy news editor takes a slightly different tack — having previously written Investing to Save the Planet — with a story for children....
...Professional archaeologists look on him as a vandal, a liar, a fantasist and a thief. He used dynamite to speed up his excavation....
...Hackney Diamonds is named after London slang for the glass debris after a car window is smashed by a thief, someone who wants more than they should get....
...This ensures that, if a phone is stolen, the thief won’t then be able to execute a large transaction from the victim’s account....
...Its protagonist, Basim, is a street thief turned hired killer, plying his trade across the city’s crowded alleys and soaring rooftops. But how do you create a game around a location lost to time?...
...The Nowhere Thief by Alice M Ross (Nosy Crow) The FT’s deputy news editor takes a slightly different tack — having previously written Investing to Save the Planet — with a story for children....
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