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...easily programmed to ads that change with every new blog post ? craigslist The classified-ad service has 23 employees but receives more traffic than all but seven other sites ? Linkedin Social networking for suits. It brings together an elite clientele of global executives ? ebay At the auction site, the users are the police: customer ratings
...this universality that is drawing global buyers and pushing up Zakii's value in the art market. At a Sotheby's auction in April, a lavender-colored painting of a flying male nude fetched $48,000, or triple its estimated price. Part of the reason Zakii's paintings are soaring in worth is because of their relative scarcity, which ironically also accounts for his modest profile among Southeast Asian artists. Sotheby's and Christie's have sold around half a dozen Zakii works each over the past several years. It's a trickle compared to the flood of paintings...
...plans on the big domestic-policy issues - health care and energy - have been courageous and detailed, more sophisticated than her opponents' - and very, very smart politically. Just before our interview, Clinton gave a speech launching her energy-independence proposal. It would drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by auctioning off permits to pollute and is similar to Obama's - but Obama has added a fillip of honesty by telling his audiences that the program might result in higher energy prices. I asked Clinton why she hadn't been similarly honest, and she immediately turned it around: Obama wanted to spend...
...signs reading: "I Don't Believe in Anything. I'm Just Here For The Violence." Banksy specializes in a strange brand of self-promotion: he'll sell six-figure creations and then sermonize on the evils of consumerism. Such behavior doesn't seem to deter buyers. In April, the auction house Bonham's sold his Space and Bird, a spray-painting on steel, for almost $600,000, and recently a set of 10 of his works went for more than $1 million...
...hard to survive in, and I really admire and support these people who stay true to what they want to do and don’t go into some alternative career,” Parent says.Many of the Parsons designers’ collections will be included in a charity auction that will follow the show. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Confucius Foundation, which provides scholarships to child laborers working in sweatshops that produce fake luxury goods and allow them to attend school.“Not only are we helping to give children an education...