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...over the building) stands to gain from the transferal of the Busch-Reisinger's collection to some underground vault. Granted, the stuff will probably last forever down there; yet is that what the Museum's benefactors intended? Does one, in fact, create and amass works of art for the sole purpose of preserving them...
...went there with the sole purpose of learning how to play polo," he explained. "They exploit your failings much better than the teams we usually play against. [Our mistakes] tend not to get noticed in most other matches...
...recalls how his father prevented both daughters from marrying, scaring off suitors or using courtroom wiles to turn the impressionable girls into witnesses against their gentlemen friends. The third child, Georgie, was ostensibly so traumatized by family life that he volunteered for service in World War II with the sole intent of being killed, at which he succeeded. The old man also managed to put an end to Phillip's courtship of a "girl I was in love with in Chattanooga (and there has never been another)." As these remembrances and confessions tumble out, a question emerges: Who is more...
...moved to Brownsville, near East New York, the grim neighborhood whose mean streets gave birth to Murder, Inc. The young Gotti got involved with local gangs and, though he was a clever student, was suspended from school in the eighth grade. He never went back. The streets became his sole education...
Much of Augustine's energy as a bishop was spent resisting heretics and schismatics, which led him to insist on the hierarchical church as the authoritative teacher and sole channel of salvation. Though this view later buttressed papal powers, Augustine defied Pope Zosimus when the Pontiff tolerated Pelagius, whose theology was so optimistic that humanity scarcely seemed to need a Saviour...