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...graced a Grecian banquet table and held perhaps seven gallons of wine. So proud were its makers, the painter Euphronios and the potter Euxitheos, that each signed his name boldly on the front. Even now, 2,500 years later, the calyx krater is not merely the best Greek vase in existence. It is the costliest, having been bought last summer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for $1,000,000. As of last week, it was also by far the most controversial...
...safeguarding the right to due process, the courts now tend to be impatient with narrowly legalistic defenses. When the Supreme Court was considering repossession laws, one lawyer argued that the customer had no property rights since he had defaulted on his contract; Justice Potter Stewart dryly brushed the sophistry aside by observing that the physical possession of the goods by virtue of partial payment of the price and the interest certainly represented "significant property...
...Tale of Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter, Dover; $1 each...
...Take Bob Potter. A senior at West Point he's very concerned about United States security interests. He doesn't want the United States to become a third-rate power. He consistently challenged the assumptions of his more radical colleagues on the Latin American study group...
...Potter is not unlike a lot of other cadets. Many of them seem to survive the rigid socialization and occasional indoctrination with their critical faculties intact. They're not all yes-men for the Government which pays them to go through West Point. This is especially clear when the cadets argue among themselves over U.S. strategic policies...