In the catalog, Florent Heintz, Sotheby's remarkable expert who is a historian by training, dwelt on the fact that the most famous of all Roman copies of the Greek original is "The Athena Giustiniani," now in the Vatican Museum.
And so it may seem remarkable that experts now dare to say they may finally be on a path to a vaccine that will offer at least some protection.
But the sheer breadth and variety of Hokusai's achievement is still coming to light, and Gian Carlo Calza, director of the International Hokusai Research Center in Milan, has divided up the territory among a remarkable team of experts.
J.L.: Since 2000, there has been a growing acceptance by the fire investigation community of the need for scientifically based determinations, and there have been a remarkable number of experts excluded from testifying in civil cases.
"It's remarkable," another leading expert tells me.
"Blimey," he said, "I thought we were trying to cover the World Cup, not win it!" What this means is that we are granted a remarkable level of expert reportage and insight from the likes of Aggers and Athers and Bothers (I know Botham's real nickname is "Beefy", by the way).
"She is a remarkable woman -- expert with the M-16" assault rifle," says Tom Berger, a friend who also served in Vietnam, as a corpsman with the Marines.
There is a remarkable tendency to trust experts, even when there is little evidence of their forecasting powers.
The candidates are without exception remarkable people, highly qualified, experts in diverse fields, committed, hard-working, outstanding, talented human beings.
Ed's refusal to get with the program led him to write a shockingly candid letter to the influential U.S. Senator J William Fulbright -- with historic consequences -- and later to compile a remarkable book called The Experts: 100 Years of Blunder in Indo-China.
