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...also adopted Dylan's dismissal of the clueless - "Something is happening but you don't know what it is, / Do you, Mr. Jones?" - in "Ballad of a Thin Man." The ultimate shrug-off came from "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right": "You just sorta wasted my precious time...
...Bernazzani, Riley and U.S. Attorney Letten, there was a new commitment in the room after Katrina. "It was a bond," says Bernazzani. "There was a recognition that Katrina broke the old crystal. Let's not go back to the old ways." The trauma created trust, something rare and precious in law enforcement...
Citing Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson, Gardner, who is the Hobbs professor of cognition and education said, “in the area of scholarship, the thing that’s most precious is the esteem of your peers, and I’m very honored and humbled that people of the stature of the American Philosophical Society have chosen to select me to their ranks...
While lower Manhattan has further to go, Pryor and his new neighbors have already done the hardest work. They turned what was once just a massive center of commerce into something that, for now, seems much more precious--a neighborhood...
...Even accounting for the blarney of salesmen who will always make their product precious and scarce so you think you'd better act quickly, this still struck me as a harbinger of... something. New York City's northern suburbs, where I live, are home to women who until recently were waiting for the day they could trade their Ford Expedition for an Excursion, maybe some day an Extravaganza that was even more impossible to park. We may shop at Whole Foods and buy hormone-free milk for the kids, but natural sensitivity and ecological awareness stopped at the garage door...