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...evidence mounts against prominent Harvard donor A. Alfred Taubman, on trial for price-fixing as chair and director of Sotheby’s auction house, the University must decide what impact the case will have on the Harvard institution named after him, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Kennedy School of Government...
Taubman, who in 1988 gave $15 million to fund the center, is currently on trial for coordinating efforts with Christie’s auction house to establish higher prices and share confidential client information. He has pleaded not guilty...
...home recovering from hip replacement surgery, Gates filled long hours by reading, among other things, the antique auction catalogs that arrived in his mail...
Gates’s acquisition of the manuscript has stirred wide interest in the work even though at the time of the auction, few others believed the document was really written by an escaped slave...
...went in there prepared to pay whatever it took,” Gates said. But he was worried enough about a bidding war that he sought additional funding from publishing companies, he said. “One letter from Frederick Douglass at the same auction sold...