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Visitors to the University's 20 museums have access to millions of dollars in artifacts ranging from priceless paintings like Max Beckman's self-portrait to valuable gold and quartz crystals...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Improvements Suggested for Museum Security | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...considered politically correct and are sometimes difficult to swallow, but he is fiercely unapologetic. He speaks with a forthrightness and integrity that not even flourishes of rhetoric can disguise. He is also marvelously entertaining and has a way with maxims that would put La Rochefoucauld to shame. One priceless example: "Love sits on a dungheap, and woe to him that slips...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Cyprus Up Against the Wall of Ethnic Conflict | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

...priceless antique desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN'S POETRY LIST | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

...biography of the new President, Kim's son, Kim Jong Il. Titled The Great Man KIM JONG IL (and boasting a picture of the Kimjongilia flower on its cover), it included chapters titled "Boundless Solicitude," "A World-Startling Miracle" and "The Once Annoying Mountains of Waste Turned into Priceless Embankment," and concluded with an account of the Christlike leader ordering the clouds to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Si, North Korea No | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Rostenkowski, 66, the son of a Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloom Under the Dome | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

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