Excerpt from near the end of the article (about Summer Palace zodiac heads, separate pieces from the heists): > The curator guided me toward a dark, carpeted r

Excerpt from near the end of the article (about Summer Palace zodiac heads, separate pieces from the heists): > The curator guided me toward a dark, carpeted room in the rear of the museum. Inside, each of the four revered heads—the ox, the tiger, the monkey, and the pig—had been given its own display case, in which it sat atop purple velvet cushioning. > “The first time I saw them, I was so excited,” the curator told me. She spoke in a low, reverential whisper. She was a student then and remembered how, on the day the heads were officially returned, her entire school had watched the ceremony on television. Students wept at their desks.