Eakin and I disagree on our response to the antiquities "scandal", but I hope that we can continue to debate the core issues.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Hugh Eakin: an apology
I would like to make an apology to Hugh Eakin in the wake of his piece in the New York Times [my response]. It was inappropriate of me to suggest that he was writing to prepare the way for another organisation.
Eakin and I disagree on our response to the antiquities "scandal", but I hope that we can continue to debate the core issues.
Eakin and I disagree on our response to the antiquities "scandal", but I hope that we can continue to debate the core issues.
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I wonder if Mr. Eakin will be ask kind and apologize to those working in source countries who he painted as extortionists.
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