IT’S PRIVATE. That is now the word from organizers as to whether or not the public can listen-in to the conversation of 16 scientists meeting to remix the theory of evolution at Altenberg, Austria in July. So while Konrad Lorenz Institute where the …
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Hugh Eakin’s recent “Treasure Hunt” story in The New Yorker profiling Marion True, the former Getty curator on trial in Rome for conspiracy to traffic in ancient art, devotes a column to True’s 1991 paper on the destruction of ancient cultural sites, …
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Much has been written about the CIA cocaine operation at Mena, Arkansas during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s watch as governor and first lady of that state in the 1980s. So I wondered why Carl Bernstein left it out of his book on Hillary Clinton, A Woman …
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Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper ’s Magazine — whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family — and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency’s man, I was directed …
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“Ask them what happened to Barry Seal,” Jon Kwitny, the late investigative journalist of Nugan-Hand Bank and other CIA-linked mysteries, said with a Cheshire grin as I left The Kwitny Report television show’s offices in New York and boarded an Avianca …
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When Mormon feminist Judith Dushku learned that Mitt Romney, her former bishop and friend, counseled a woman to come to full term with her sixth pregnancy –despite overwhelming medical advice that the life of mother and child were seriously endangered …
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Opinion – Suzan Mazur

New York collector Stuart Pivar says the odyssey of his “nearly life-size” Roman bronze boy includes a chapter on an attempted “assassination” of the statue. He identifies the place of treachery as the Hunt-Sotheby’s auction, June 19,1990. And he fingers …
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With a searing ancient Near East focus, Hicham Aboutaam, the 30ish Lebanese antiquities dealer sweeps into the back of his Phoenix gallery showroom in Manhattan to greet me. He is dressed in French elegance, his handshake somewhat reserved. I later notice …
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John Deuss, multi-millionaire Dutch oil man and, until recently, chairman of Bermuda Commercial Bank, is being questioned in his native Netherlands about “carousel” financial irregularities involving his Curacao bank. So what, you would be pardoned for asking, …
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Opinion – Suzan Mazur

The current sex scandal involving former Congressman Mark Foley (Rep.-FL)begs the question: Just where do Washington politicians and US military seeking private trysting spots — free of pesky media and routine security questions — continue to find them?
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