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...homes once owned by Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing, who has been fined for tax evasion, were sold at a government auction...
...collection was donated in 1981 by Frederick R. Koch ’55, who had acquired the photographs at auction. Although a few of them were featured in Vogue and other magazines, many were privately commissioned portraits or photographs of friends—the pieces that Lynes kept for his personal collection, Wilson says...
Take in a ball game at the stadium that bore Enron's name, and you'll be sitting in a place now called Minute Maid Park. The tilted E that blazed in front of Enron's Houston headquarters is gone, sold at auction. At its offices, a pared-down staff administers old contracts and remaining assets like gas pipelines and power plants. It's nothing like the days when secretaries received gifts of Waterford crystal and executives jetted to luxury resorts to party. Enron's Christmas bash this year: an afternoon gathering in the lobby with coffee, cookies and music...
...take over the government's 10.9% stake in Crédit Lyonnais. But talks bogged down. In November, when Agricole ceo Jean Laurent (pictured) tried to haggle the government's final offer of €44 per share down to €42, the Finance Ministry lost patience and called an auction. France's biggest bank, BNP Paribas, gobbled up the stake for €58 per share. Agricole realized it goofed, replaced its chairman and bid €56 per share in cash and stock for the whole bank, valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains...
...highest bid at a Sotheby's Auction for a hand-written, 93-word outline by author J.K. Rowling that provides a glimpse of the fifth installment of the Harry Potter books...