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	The Elgin Marbles

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3cf81eb5-026c-4d79-a03b-37adff3cce62/F528CAC4-6792-4322-AC15-6C8CCC4E999A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/5699534/The-Elgin-Marbles-will-never-return-to-Athens---the-British-Museum-is-their-rightful-home.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/5699534/The-Elgin-Marbles-will-never-return-to-Athens---the-British-Museum-is-their-rightful-home.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/5699534/The-Elgin-Marbles-will-never-return-to-Athens---the-British-Museum-is-their-rightful-home.html"><H1>The Elgin Marbles will never return to Athens – the British Museum is their rightful home</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/5699534/The-Elgin-Marbles-will-never-return-to-Athens---the-British-Museum-is-their-rightful-home.html"><H2>
The Greeks should erect a statue of Lord Elgin near the Parthenon to express 
  their nation's gratitude to him for saving the Marbles.
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Having built this new museum for the Elgin Marbles, the Greeks have managed to 
  rustle up one or two British journalists credulous or naïve enough to write 
  articles calling for their return. But if anyone thinks the building is ever 
  going to house anything other than the plaster casts that are on display 
  there now, they are hopelessly out of touch with reality. There is virtually 
  no chance that the director or trustees of the British Museum, now or in the 
  future, will comply with this outlandish demand.
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Let the new museum stand as a monument to the futility of cultural nationalism 
  — in this case trying to claim back something that by now belongs to the 
  whole world.
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