Word: auction
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...open in American museums. There are Himalayan bronzes and paintings in Chicago, Mongol ceramics and carvings in Los Angeles, and Japanese animation figures in West Palm Beach, Fla. If you go online before March 29, you can snag a fair example of Totalitarian Kitsch at the Sotheby's/eBay auction of Maoist artifacts www.sothebys.com) At last glance, $172.50 would get you three red plastic badges with cameo silhouettes of the Great Helmsman. And when the new and improved Peabody Essex Museum reopens in June, it will feature on its grounds an early 19th century Chinese merchant's house, which the museum...
...some point, after one of the Northeastern rowers allegedly stole his sunglasses, Howard said he left the auction to retrieve them...
Howard’s injuries occurred during a charity auction at the Weld Boathouse with rowers from the Harvard and Northeastern crew teams...
...evening approached its end, the organizers of the event counted the cash. Proceeds from the date auction exceeded $1000—and everyone’s wildest expectations. The money will be added to the profits from other fundraisers to support the Campus Hillel Ambulance Initiative (CHAI), a fund which intends to donate an ambulance to the State of Israel...
While the organizers emphasized the charitable nature of the auction, they also performed an invaluable service to the social lives of many Jewish undergraduates. Lippin speculated that the high value placed upon intra-religious dating in many Jewish families contributed to the success of the event. Jewish students were more willing to pay big bucks to date someone with whom they share a religion, an ethnicity and a culture. While Lippin admitted that the Jewish dating scene on campus is limited, he said he believes that those limitations only “force you to look harder within the community...