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...former MIT student pleaded guilty last week to mail fraud stemming from a scheme involving the sale of computers and other equipment stolen from MIT over the Internet auction site eBay...
...visor to j310 for a bag, and there are only 2,000 of each color. If that sounds pricey, consider how much a real Warhol would run you. Sotheby's is expecting between $4 million and $6 million for Lavender Marilyn (1) at its contemporary art auction in New York on Nov. 12. And Phillips has said it expects at least $4 million for Silver Liz, a 1963 image of Elizabeth Taylor. Try to get your head around that. - L.G. Hip Sleep The boutique hotel was the brainchild of Ian Schrager, co-founder of New York's legendary Studio...
Though lawsuits have been filed in the past over such statutes—two years ago Yahoo! was sued by French groups over auction pages it hosted selling Nazi paraphernalia—this is the first indication of preemptive action taken by an American company to avoid such foreign legal troubles. Though well-intentioned, both the laws and Google’s reaction to them are deeply unsettling...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government suffered embarrassment last spring after its benefactor, A. Alfred Taubman, was jailed in connection with a price-fixing scheme between two major art auction houses...
...purest form, the competition between schools for high quality students works like an auction. Each institution tries to improve the package that it offers incoming first-years in hopes of convincing them to matriculate...