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...poles on their shoulders were two concrete survey markers that had been planted on the summit years ago by a U.S. Army team. Behind the bearers trudged 4,000 other natives from New Guinea's jungled East Sepik district, reciting the Roman Catholic rosary and clutching handfuls of precious mud that they had scooped from the mountaintop...
...structure of their lives. The Justices, armored with life tenure, are in the unique position, says Columbia Law Professor Tom Farer, of being able "to seek out and identify those values and assumptions which are most fundamental in the American culture." A sense of continuity is ever more precious in a world assaulted by change. That fact makes it more essential than ever that the principles embraced by the court be imbued with as much intelligence and wisdom as possible. Every successive failure by the court to think a problem through to a durable solution will be less and less...
...hours until Commencement drift down to a precious few, speculation is running rampant through the Yard about this/year's honorary degrees...
...exchange for our precious natural resources, which we obtain by stripping our national forests and ravishing our Appalachian Mountains for coal, we are sent a bunch of consumer junk, and we still end up with a billion-dollar-per-year deficit in the balance of payments...
Lord Keynes recognized that the Pharaohs had a great deal to teach 20th century political economists. In his General Theory Keynes wrote: "Ancient Egypt was doubly fortunate ... in that it possessed two activities, namely, pyramid building as well as the search for precious metals . . . We have no such easy escape from the sufferings of unemployment." How about an Egyptologist on the Council of Economic Advisers...