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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There are questions like, ‘Do you do sales tax?’ And I never had to deal with sales tax for any student things at Harvard,” Wang says. (The answer is yes, they did have to use sales tax for the silent auction...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Artists Bring in the Benjamins | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...probably Skype Ltd. of Luxembourg, which has attracted more than 405 million customers since it launched software in 2003 that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay is spinning off Skype in an IPO, after taking a $1.4 billion write-down. Still, Skype is profitable and growing, and it rolled out an Apple iPhone app, much to the consternation of carriers everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nortel's Nadir | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

This has nothing to do with Bacon as the phenomenon of last year's hot auction market, now extinguished, where one of his triptychs sold for $86 million. By bringing together almost five decades of his work into a collective cry, this show makes you realize how rare it is to see contemporary art that attempts, much less achieves, what used to be called a tragic dimension. Irony you can find in any gallery these days, as well as low comedy, puerile cool and enigma. But in a time that has its share of suffering, where is the art that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...sunrise and beyond. Something sweet: quite possibly the funnest thing FlyBy has ran into on the web in quite some time...please, experiment--a non-sweet combination just isn't possible with this thing. Also, pics of the weird/creepy items to be found at the Neverland Ranch auction (still gotta love the music, though...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: O_O VOID 4/28/09 | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

Courtside Celtics tickets and luxurious weekend getaways were on the auction block at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub last night for the Phillips Brooks House Association’s sixth annual Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The event featured a silent auction as well as a live auction conducted by guest auctioneer and musician Livingston Taylor—the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor. With big ticket items including trips to San Francisco and tickets to games at Fenway garnering high bids, PBHA received considerable funding for its community service programs. The night?...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PBHA’s Auction to Benefit SUP | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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