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4 arrested for Potter manuscript theft\nLONDON -- Police have arrested four people on suspicion of stealing two copies of the eagerly awaited new Harry Potter novel that were found dumped in a field in eastern England.\nSuffolk police said Thursday they arrested three teenagers and a 44-year-old man late Wednesday night. The four are suspected of stealing first edition copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" from the book's printer, Clays Ltd., police said. The book is to be released on June 21.\nThe Sun reported Tuesday that a walker found the books in a field near Clays and gave them to one of its reporters. The newspaper said it stashed the books in a safe at its headquarters in east London and later returned them to publishers Bloomsbury.\nA spokeswoman from Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed that The Sun had returned the books and said a stolen copy of three chapters of "Order of the Phoenix," which had been circulating separately, had also been handed back to the publishers.\nClays had no comment about the incident.\nArmani brings fashion exhibit to Berlin\nBERLIN -- Giorgio Armani brought an exhibition that spans more than a quarter-century of fashion design to Berlin, enthusing about the backdrop that the German capital's Neue Nationalgalerie will provide for his creations.\n"The linear architecture and the discreet background will show off the clothes well," the Italian designer told reporters Wednesday at the steel-and-glass building, designed by Mies van der Rohe. The exhibition, titled simply "Giorgio Armani," opened to the public Thursday and will remain on show until July 13.\nThe collection of some 500 Armani creations first opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in late 2000 and showed the following year at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The show, which theater director Robert Wilson organized, has been expanded for Berlin to include more recent models and video projections.\nArmani, 68, said he remains attached to all the pieces in the exhibition.\n"They represent moments from my work -- they recall happy, unhappy and stressful moments," he said.