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...been up to Oscar Wilde, there would be no auction this week of the private property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or any such event. Writing a sonnet in 1895, "On the Sale by Auction" of John Keats' love letters to Fanny Brawne, Wilde compared the "brawlers of the auction mart" to the Roman soldiers who tossed dice for the garments of Jesus...
...snootiness, if you ask me. And auctions can be a lot of fun, which is why they have lasted. But they can also be tasteless and stupid, and revealing of us. When we get all excited about the idea of owning a love letter from a duchess to a duke, we ought to be embarrassed; it simply shows us up as dirty little snoops...
...Duke University Law School, however, reversedits policy earlier this year and now grantsmilitary recruiters the same access to facilitiesand services as other recruiters...
...military] presentations were attended bymore students than would have attended them hadthey been off-campus," says Robert E. Smith, thedirector of the Duke Law School career services...
...Duke changed its policy because "there are manystudents here who would not be able to continuetheir study of the law" were the federal financialaid programs removed, according to Smith...