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...revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned. Now the $1 billion newspaper empire he spent four decades building seems to be headed for the auction block...
Jeff Jordan is the Tasmanian Devil. At least that's what the folks at eBay decided when they were choosing cartoon characters to represent the top brass for the company's conference-room decorations. Jordan, 44, who heads the auction website's U.S. operations from its San Jose, Calif., base, wanted to be Buzz Lightyear. But his peers had no doubt: he's Taz. "It's something about my energy level," says Jordan. "Plus, I've been known to grumble...
...real estate lady gave us a pumpkin pie to celebrate and our heating man gave us his own maple syrup and a cup with his company’s name on it… The house is furnished with the 3 chairs we bought at auction and a blue...
Furthermore, in ancient civilizations such as India and China, some spoils of war and colonialism purloined a century or two ago by invaders have gradually come to be considered the legitimate property of whoever possesses them. Many international dealers and auction houses argue that Asia's turbulent history makes it simply impossible for them to track the chain of ownership. But He, from Beijing-based Cultural Heritage Watch, says dealers aren't trying hard enough and adds, "Can you imagine a Renoir suddenly appearing on the international market without any history of where it came from? It's outrageous that...
Tang and his colleagues moved fast. The Chinese embassy in Washington dispatched a representative to the auction house's New York office. At first, according to a Chinese diplomat, Sotheby's refused to exclude Lot 32 from auction, saying the Chinese didn't have enough proof that the items had been taken from an imperial tomb just months before. Phillips, the Sotheby's spokeswoman, says it had an unequivocal written warranty stating that the owner had good title to the objects. She also noted that none of the statuettes appeared in the Art Loss Registry, an international database of stolen...