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...took a personal call from a very nervous California governor Gray Davis to get the stay, and the administration hinted that this would be the last one. And so Davis is moving on with his solution No. 1, the state's auction of long-term, fixed-price supply contracts, aimed at stabilizing the long-term power supply now that the spot market is killing the state's power buyers. (This was almost a part of the original deregulation plan, but the utilities thought they could do better with short-term purchasing. They were wrong...
...auction prices for a Playstation 2 unit are now about even with the actual retail price ($350 on ebay vs. $300 at a retail store), you can begin to realistically think about whether to get one or not. Behind the hype, here are some practical considerations for Playstation 1 owners and non-owners alike...
Earlier cases in which Harvard sued to protect its name were different. For example, just over a year ago, Congress passed an anti-cyber-squatting measure that touched off a raft of lawsuits, including one against a man who registered domain names such as "harvard-lawschool.com" and attempted to auction then off for thousands of dollars each. The University sued to protect its name--which has been trademarked since 1827--in a justifiable use of the law to protect its own interests...
...opposite side of the spectrum, Francesca Gomes, who works in an auction house and went to Williams with another woman who received the message, wrote out a stream of consciousness dissertation of what she thought about in an average...
...interests of their corporate clients. Firms like Boies, Schiller & Flexner, new enough to be free from such conflicts, do not. From last year's settlement of a case involving price fixing in the vitamin market, Boies, Schiller stands to collect a fee of $40 million; from this year's auction-house case, the firm could take in $25 million. And as you might imagine, all partners at Boies' firm are not created equal...