Word: auction
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...company and were horrified when it looked like Arnault--of whom Ford has said, "We could teach [him] a few things about this business"--would capture Gucci. To fend off the raider, the partners brought in self-made French billionaire Francois Pinault, the owner of Christie's auction house and part owner of Converse shoes, who used a controversial clause in Gucci's bylaws to purchase a 42% stake in the firm for $2.9 billion. Arnault insists Gucci's white-knight strategy was illegal, and the battle for the company is still wending through Dutch courts. (Gucci is incorporated...
...wasn't Sotheby's, but the bidding in Cabot House was no less impassioned at last night's Dutch Auction...
Many Cabot seniors who attended the auction opted to miss a popular Senior Bar event known as the "senior stumble"--a moniker for the traditional pub crawl that tours nine Cambridge and Boston drinking establishments...
...audience members were enlightened when House Committee Chair Mellissa M. Mueller '00--chosen to participate in the event at last year's auction--appeared on stage and stripped down to her two-piece lycra sports suit. Her three roommates, who had paid for the privilege, then massaged Mueller with the hallowed lamb, which was marinated in a mysterious dark sauce...
Kate A. Agresta '02 was there to watch her roommate Becca P. Mercer '02 auction off a "singing, tap dancing telegram" from their third roommate Heather G. Childs...