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Kelly shares with his customers the sentiment that baseball, and the artifacts which represent it are "priceless." So as many fans stop in with no intention of buying goods. Kelly displays many items he will never sell. Most of these lie in the Ted Williams alcove, a collection of Williams memorabilia larger than the Hall of Fame...
...rite was symbolically linked to an almost forgotten age, when Britain had but one Catholic Church: the priceless Canterbury Gospels were ceremonially moved onto the altar. The volume had been presented by Pope Gregory I to Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, as he sent him to Christianize the eastern British Isles...
...horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered glass fell on the mosque's priceless Afghan and Iranian carpets. Moments later, when police arrived, they found Goodman hiding in a room beneath the rock. He immediately surrendered, telling police: "I had to do it. They are killing my friends and relatives. I am taking revenge." Whatever his motive, his mental state or his political affiliations may have...
...Reagan's inauguration. Chivas Regal ads, and books like Kahn's provide many examples of people flaunting their money Extravagance promises a ready way to self-help, to rising above the crowd. Extremism in the pursuit of riches is no vice. We link it first to priceless human virtues, like individual drive and creativity, and only later on waste and self-indulgence. Jock Whitney's insistence on thinner wine-glasses may be only frivolous arrogance, but some will admire it anyway, forgetting perhaps Mahatma Gandhi's example of resistance to oppression As Cornelius Vanderbilt said. "The public be damned...
...walled compound where soldiers wielding submachine guns waved us through a gate flanked by two Russian T-72 tanks. For the fifth time since my arrival I was thoroughly searched. Inside the handsome government offices with beautifully crafted wooden Arabic arches, television crews set up their equipment on priceless rugs. Then a top Gaddafi aide, sporting a natty pinstripe suit under immaculate Arab robes, announced that the interview had been canceled. The presumed reason: the media-wise Gaddafi, who appeared, briefly, wearing a European-cut suit with a British overcoat flung over his shoulders, realized that the crisis in Poland...