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Betting on a Champion's Failure Kieren Fallon seemed to have the horse race all sewn up: he was 10 lengths ahead of second favorite Ballinger Ridge with less than half the distance to go in the March 2 betdirect.co.uk Median Auction Maiden Stakes. Then, to the astonishment of the punters at Lingfield Park, the six-time British champion jockey glanced over his shoulder and appeared to ease up - and the 8-11 favorite Rye passed him on the line. What had happened? The Sunday tabloid News of the World published a story alleging Fallon had predicted to its undercover...
While Tenon paid 2.2 billion New Zealand dollars for the land in 1996, several estimates say Harvard paid only $650 million, or 970 New Zealand dollars, at the December auction...
According to a Jan. 16 notice to shareholders, Tenon Ltd., with four sawmills and a capacity of 850,000 cubic meters of timber per year, would sell a large fraction of its forestry assets, and looked to auction cutting rights to international investors...
Certain items, however, will go to the auction block on April 14 at Christie’s. The proceeds will go to a number of institutions, including...
Derivative? Maybe. But it makes sense. "Vintage roots us. It is an expression of our history that is wearable and gives us a sense of place and security in very insecure times," says Clair Watson, who heads the couture, textiles and fine-costume-jewelry department at the auction house Doyle New York. "Not only is fashion a business that breeds insecurity anyway, right now current fashion moves so fast that it is reassuring to wear something that has outlasted its period, that retains its allure beyond the dictates of now." And, come to think...