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...Graff's favorite stones is the Graff blue, an extremely rare, 3-carat round blue diamond that he has bought and sold three times over the past 25 years. The first time he saw it was at auction, where it sold to someone else for $180,000. Years later he spotted it on the hand of a client but couldn't buy it until after the client died, and his widow offered it to Graff for a much higher price. He eventually sold it to a Japanese client who offered $1.5 million. Fifteen years later, the same client wanted...
Magnus Grimeland ’07 has stamina: he has endured rigorous sniper training, he goes home to Norway periodically for secret missions, and he can withstand the rigorous scrutiny of the Mather date auction. As a member of the Norwegian Special Forces, he’s just trained that way. And according to his roommate Marc P. Eskenazi ’06-’08, his training can be a perk. “Magnus is like the best friend a guy could have,” he says. “Especially if you need to have...
...Price paid at auction for a 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II, bought by a millionaire Baptist from Houston $244,000 Price paid by a U.S. casino in May for a 1999 Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict...
...Siddiqui said that he was encouraged by the success of the banquet. “The event shows Harvard students do care,” he said. Several other campus groups including the South Asian Association (SAA) have contributed to the relief effort in other ways. A charity auction and dinner was held on Friday in Leverett Dining Hall. The money raised by the auction of a one week stay in Hawaii will go to aid for the earthquake victims. Farid also helped plan a clothing drive last week that collected 60 boxes of clothes. Although Saturday?...
...renewed vigilance in University Hall, student organizations will keep pairing up with outside companies, and making the deals that have become such a large part of their livelihood.SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLEFor their first collaborative promotion at Harvard, JetBlue gave Friedman and Vandenberg a round-trip ticket to be auctioned off at an Adams House Katrina benefit.After the auction, Dean Kidd warned Connie Zong ’06, the Adams HoCo co-chair, against pursuing a relationship with JetBlue. While the airline’s donation of the ticket did not violate any rules, Kidd told FM in an e-mail...