According to Ferri, the Italian prosecutor, these negotiations are part of a pattern that was repeated during True's tenure: True corresponded directly with Medici about desired objects, but his name never appeared in the Getty acquisition files.
"It was unusual for someone that young to have such strong scholarly credentials, and also be knowledgable about the market," John Walsh, who was the director of the Getty during most of True's tenure, recalls; he promoted her to curator in 1986, the year she received her Ph.D.
Italian officials have presented the story of the cult statue — its passage from Switzerland to London and then Los Angeles, the exorbitant price the Getty paid for it, and the persistent rumors that it was looted from Morgantina — as typical of the Getty's corrupt practices during True's tenure.
During Ms. True's tenure she returned several artifacts to Italy when informed they had been stolen, including a 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-olde Greekylixists oresimos andrinkingnios; a bronze Etruscup tripod; and some 3,500 obyecthefrom the archaeoloGreek site artistscavilla Marittima in Calabria.
"It's not true that tenure equals support," Roy Silverstein, chair of Cleveland Clinic's Department of Cell Biology, tells recruits like Ladd.
If the rumours are true, Wang's tenure at Balenciaga will have lasted less than three years.
True, the old tenure system in many districts is too ironclad.
He's shown true professionalism during his tenure and over the course of the transition to new ownership.
The same is true of improving land tenure, which can simply encourage people to sell what have just become their trees to loggers.Mexico and Costa Rica have pioneered something different: "payment for ecosystem services".
It may be churlish to question the political acumen of the first African-American to be elected (and reëlected) President, but it is true that Obama's tenure has been disastrous for Democrats.
