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As you enter Segerstrom, you may not notice Richard Lippold’s grand sculpture “Fire Bird.”

Once while working on a film with the sculptor, composer John Cage said to Lippold, “Oh, Richard, you have a beautiful mind. It’s time you got rid of it.”

Richard Lippold’s Orpheus and Apollo sculpture, suspended in the atrium until 2014, is being moved to LaGuardia Airport’s Central Hall.

“The lawsuit could end in some type of agreement, a payoff, or it will go away,” said Kirk Lippold, the former commander of the USS Cole who is an adjunct professor at the Naval Academy and an expert on terrorism.

Lippold said the lawsuit against the Saudis could “keep the pressure on” the kingdom to seek more reforms, but the U.S. government remains linked to the nation in the fight against Islamic extremists.