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...have been illicitly dug up and sold to see-no-evil museums. But the Getty was a notoriously aggressive collector, and some in the art world believe that its hunger and spending habits encouraged looting and theft. Ironically, True was responsible in 1995 for the Getty's adopting a strict policy of buying only well-documented pieces. "She extricated the museum from an ethical morass," says University of Virginia professor of art history Malcolm Bell. "It's extremely sad that the one person who understood that the intellectual integrity of her institution depended on respecting knowledge is now going...
...signal of raw accomplishment and committed itself to a much bolder change. The notion that a C denotes “average” performance in a course seems positively quaint today, but why not revive it? This is not to say that courses should be graded on a strict curve with a C as the mean; that would reinstate grades exclusively as a relative communicator of performance and have similar effects as the Princeton grading cap. Instead, why not rescale the expectations of achievement in a course so that a C would indicate a fairly strong level of accomplishment...
Almost all of the writers in the Standard distrust international institutions such as the U.N., favor a less-strict separation between church and state, and believe that lower taxes are needed to spur economic growth. But the views expressed in the magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax—at least for large estates...
...emphasis is on clean lines, strict construction, and an Edwardian obsession with detail, whether it be filigree or nonsensical ties. However, in order to avoid looking like Helena Bonham Carter, deflect this fall’s overweening romanticism with a tailored or modern piece, allowing you to seamlessly transition from class to an awkward date at Grafton Street...
...believe our specific burglary rate is higher than other college campuses in the area because we feel we’re doing a strict interpretation of the burglary definition,” Catalano said. “We have pretty high standards...We have nothing to hide...