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Madness that has put our greatest treasures in peril The cash crisis now facing the British Museum has been caused by misguided Government policies
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REMEMBER the Lottery? Remember the billions that were to be
handed out to the nation's longstarved temples of culture? Or the
vague feeling, when you paid your pound for the little pink slip,
that you were not only buying a modest fantasy of what you might do
with pounds 16 million, but you were also contributing to "good
causes"? If so, you may be baffled by the news that the ultimate and
original temple of culture, the British Museum, is gasping for air
like a stranded whale. Or, to be mor...
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