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Suzan Mazur: Euphronios Ancient Art In Court
Friday, 4 November 2005, 12:48 am | Suzan Mazur
The antiquities trial which opens November 16 in Rome has put two of the ancient art world's biggest names in the hot seat -- former Getty museum curator Marion True and dealer Robert Hecht, an 86-year old department store-heir -- each charged with ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The Dorak Affair's Final Chapter
Monday, 10 October 2005, 2:19 pm | Suzan Mazur
The Dorak mystery flower has opened at last. Earlier this week in phone conversations I had with David Stronach, Professor of Near East Archaeology at the University of California - Berkeley, Stronach disclosed that Jimmie Mellaart invented Dorak. He ... More >>
Dorak Diggers Weigh In On Anna & Royal Treasure
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 1:13 pm | Suzan Mazur
I've heard from a variety of figures in the antiquities world about the evidence I presented recently on these pages, which essentially cracks the case of one of the great art mysteries -- the whereabouts of the so-called priceless Dorak treasure. ... More >>
How Much Will Carlyle Pledge To Katrina Relief?
Friday, 2 September 2005, 5:03 pm | Suzan Mazur
How Much Will The Carlyle Group Shadow Government Pledge In Katrina Disaster Relief? - And would Carlyle's Frank Carlucci, once Nixon's Hurricane Agnes Flood Czar, best serve as advisor to the Katrina cleanup rather than as principal entertainer at his ... More >>
Mazur: Getting To The Bottom Of The Dorak Affair
Saturday, 27 August 2005, 10:38 pm | Suzan Mazur
He's held out longer than Woodward, Bernstein & Deep Throat. But it's time British archaeologist James "Jimmie" Mellaart, now age 80 or so and in his golden years, finally fesses up to the whereabouts of the priceless "Royal Treasure of Dorak," ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Diebold & The Mormon Mason Handshake
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:29 am | Suzan Mazur
Diebold, the Ohio computer election systems manufacturer, remains under a cloud regarding irregularities in its tabulation of the 2004 US presidential vote, which led to the reinstalling of George W. Bush. So it may be productive to explore what ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Frank Carlucci I, "Sublime Prince"
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 4:41 pm | Suzan Mazur
The life of Frank Carlucci I has largely escaped public scrutiny, possibly because he's grandfather to one of the knights of the political chessboard -- Carlyle Group’s Frank Carlucci III -- who is not known for being flashy. More >>
Suzan Mazur: Pension Funds & The Price Of Oil
Friday, 1 April 2005, 12:11 am | Suzan Mazur
Opec's acting Secretary General Adnan Shihab-Eldin has called the high price of oil "unjustified." Former Opec master Zaki Yamani has re-emerged to say that $50-a-barrel oil is "unsustainable," and he's predicted another cycle like the late '70s/early ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Open Letter To AGs Of Utah & Arizona
Friday, 11 March 2005, 11:45 am | Suzan Mazur
Last week you were cited in these pages Scoop: Rescind Utah's Statehood? for refusing to dismantle the polygamy cults in your respective states, flouting federal law as well as the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which ... More >>
Rescind Utah's Statehood?
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 6:40 pm | Suzan Mazur
Polygamy is illegal in Utah and forbidden by the Arizona constitution. However, law enforcement agencies in both states have decided to focus on crimes within polygamous communities that involve child abuse, domestic violence and fraud. More >>
Tempelsman's Man In Kinshasa Emends Lumumba Story
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 12:02 am | Suzan Mazur
"Meet me under the 59th Street bridge," Mark Garsin said after reading my interview with him about the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first democratically elected leader. At the edge of New York on the East River? More >>
Suzan Mazur: Mr. Garsin from Kinshasa
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 1:03 pm | Suzan Mazur
''But isn't it passe?'' Mark Garsin responded when I phoned him recently in New York for an interview about the political assassination of Patrice Lumumba. I was not surprised. More >>
Suzan Mazur: Unspooking Frank Carlucci
Sunday, 2 January 2005, 6:13 am | Suzan Mazur
I remember getting stuck more than once in winter blizzards at Bear Creek - the northeast Pennsylvania boyhood home of Carlyle Group's Frank Carlucci. Route 115 cuts through the woods there before winding down the mountain to where I grew up in the 1960s ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The President's Man
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:37 am | Suzan Mazur
A recent auction of the effects of Washington lawyer Clark M. Clifford may supply valuable clues into some of the mysteries of the age, suggests Suzan Mazur More >>
Suzan Mazur: National Security & Incest
Friday, 10 December 2004, 4:03 pm | Suzan Mazur
During three hours of conversation several weeks before 9/11 with a key Washington insider familiar with the national security establishment, I learned that one of the ''founding fathers'' of US National Security sexually molested his own children. More >>
New York Times: The Paper of Record & Ripoff (II)
Friday, 19 November 2004, 6:08 pm | Suzan Mazur
The New York Times has now publicly admitted it plagiarized my classic 7/1/2003 report for the Progressive Review, ''How Bush Got Bounced From Carlyle Board'' in Ron Suskind's highly-publicized 2004 election cover story for the magazine. More >>
New York Times: The Paper Of Record & Ripoff
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 11:47 am | Suzan Mazur
This fresh case of banditry by the Times comes despite the National Writers Union's successful legal challenges in recent years on behalf of freelance writers regarding thievery by the media industry, in Tasini v. The New York Times and National Geographic ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Bush And The Mormons
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 6:04 pm | Suzan Mazur
Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle: "So in 1989, when Mr. Marriott made it known that his company's airline catering division, then known as Marriott In-Flite Services, was on the block, one had to suspect that he knew something the rest of the world didn't know. More >>
Suzan Mazur: John Deuss - The Manhattan projects
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 3:42 pm | Suzan Mazur
IT'S been a while since I've had a conversation with Bermuda-based oil maverick John Deuss. But what comes to mind after reading about the fatal helicopter crash of Group Menatep's managing director (turned intelligence agency informant), Stephen Curtis, ... More >>
Crude Talk: US & Venezuela Dance "The Joropo"
Monday, 14 June 2004, 1:55 pm | Suzan Mazur
In spite of a robust and energetic press conference held recently in New York, which was wide open to the public, a spokesman for Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez reiterated Chavez's promise that he would cut off crude oil supplies from the US's 3rd largest ... More >>