SNIPPETS

MARCH 22,  2009

We reported on this yesterday.  See the Snippets of March 21st, below.  NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York gallery says a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur has failed to sell at auction.  Josh Chait (CHATE') of I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers says two museums interested in the fossil failed to meet the minimum price of nearly $300,000 during the auction Saturday. He declined to identify the two parties.

Money is so tight these days.  Everyone's dinosaur fund is exhausted.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will be honored by the University of Notre Dame with its Laetare Medal.  The school announced Sunday it will present Glendon with the medal -- considered the most prestigious honor for American Catholics -- during its May 17 commencement, at which President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address.

A well-deserved honor.  Mary Ann Glendon is a professor at the Harvard Law School, and has maintained her faith, and done so with dignity and scholarship, in an environment not always friendly.

MARCH 21,  2009

Headline today from Reuters:  Financial crisis can lead to modest lifestyles

I think so.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A bit of Jurassic Park is going on sale with a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur going on the auction block in New York.  The I.M. Chait Gallery says the fossil of the 9-foot-long dryosaurus dating from the Jurassic era is one of only two of its kind in the world. The gallery said it could bring up to $500,000 at Saturday's auction.

It's not a dinosaur.  It's what's left of a New York taxpayer after doing this year's taxes.

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