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...statistics are nearly always incomplete, inaccurate and full of special pleading; even so, they have helped crystallize the fantasy that the desire for art can somehow be statistically measured. By far the quaintest manifestation of this to date has been a rating system cobbled together by a young financial tipster named Willi Bongard, which recently appeared in Capital (a monthly German management magazine) and was reported in the Wall Street Journal. His artcom-pass purports to grade the world's 100 greatest artists of the '60s and '70s on a scale of relative fame and thus "objectively...
...Tipster. Instead, Miller was arrested last week on charges of conspiring with the Flynns to commit child abandonment. He was jailed in Asheville, N.C., and, after paying $8,000 in bond, returned to Illinois to face the charges. There the Flynns were also released on $10,000 bonds, and charged with child abandonment as well as conspiracy, for which they can be sentenced to one to three years in prison. Jackie Lee was in the custody of Illinois juvenile authorities. According to the Asheville medical examiner, she is still a virgin, and presumably will soon be back in the seventh...
...tipster in Chicago had alerted the Bolingbrook police that the child sale was in the making. Police followed the Flynns and were watching when the transaction took place at a Holiday Inn in nearby Willowbrook. But Miller managed to elude pursuing squad cars, and the arrests were not made until last week, when he was caught by North Carolina police...
...asserted that prosecutors would not be able to misuse such leads to find other evidence to convict the witness. The court also upheld a policeman's right to stop and frisk a suspect even if the officer's suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap them down, thus the Justices ruled unanimously that it is unconstitutional to eavesdrop on domestic political "suspects" without a judicial warrant...
...that a man sitting in a car at 2:15 a.m. in a high crime area was carrying a gun as well as some narcotics. The suspect failed to get out of the car as ordered, so the officer reached through the window and found the gun where the tipster said it would be. (The car was subsequently searched and narcotics found in it.) The officer's action under these circumstances, said Rehnquist, "was designed to ensure his safety, and we conclude that it was reasonable." Dissenting, Brennan, Douglas and Marshall worried about the ease with which a policeman...