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Additionally, tests rarely capture passion, drive, amiability and fundamental decency—all priceless character traits. If they did, Harvard would admit students based solely on test performance. In fact, one could argue that emotional stability is more important than pure intelligence for most forms of success. Perhaps Justin Chapman’s example is most telling. Though his intelligence is now in question, his emotional insecurity is not. During a recent examination, Justin threw stuffed animals and hid under a table. And psychologists suggest that Justin may suffer from never being able to live up to his falsified scores...
...main characters in Arsenic are theater critic Mortimer Brewster (William R. Holmgren ’04) and his sweet, grandmotherly aunts Abby (Jamie E. Smith ’02) and Martha Brewster (Andrea D. Leahy ’05). Their priceless interactions follow the about-to-be-married Mortimer, as he discovers that his seemingly saintly aunts have been murdering lonely old men with their homemade arsenic-laced elderberry wine...
...amassed at least 100,000 artifacts and cultural treasures from all corners of the Korean peninsula. Japanese looters and government-sponsored archaeologists violated the tombs of Korea's Kings and Queens, plundering finely worked gold jewelry, jade pendants and delicate celadon bowls. They carted off stone carvings, pagodas and priceless reliquary caskets from Buddhist temples and removed tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts from libraries. The choicest booty was often bestowed on the Emperor?like the prized blue celadon ceramics found only in the tombs of the Koryo dynasty nobility around Kaesong (now in North Korea near the border with...
...Equally rapacious were businessmen like Takenosuke Ogura, who moved to Korea in 1903 as head of a Japanese electric power company. Much of his collection?some 1,100 pieces?today sits in the Tokyo National Museum, including blue celadon vases, bronze Buddhas and a priceless, unique gold crown taken from the late 5th or early 6th century grave of a King from the Kaya dynasty. Koreans nicknamed Ogura the mole because he was so obsessed with buried treasure. Says Takasaki: "(Ogura) was one of the bad guys." A few dozen pieces are rotated through the display cabinets at a time...
...roving wiretap" on any phone used by a suspect rather than on specific phone numbers (a power granted to the FBI last October)--is a canny merger of the dramatic and the cheap. No other state has sanctioned roving taps--hence the drama--and civil liberties, while priceless, are free. That helps explain why wiretap laws are also up for modification in Maryland, Illinois, New York and Michigan...