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Though lawsuits have been filed in the past over such statutes—two years ago Yahoo! was sued by French groups over auction pages it hosted selling Nazi paraphernalia—this is the first indication of preemptive action taken by an American company to avoid such foreign legal troubles. Though well-intentioned, both the laws and Google’s reaction to them are deeply unsettling...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government suffered embarrassment last spring after its benefactor, A. Alfred Taubman, was jailed in connection with a price-fixing scheme between two major art auction houses...
...purest form, the competition between schools for high quality students works like an auction. Each institution tries to improve the package that it offers incoming first-years in hopes of convincing them to matriculate...
...poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage in 1967 and which Frank Zappa later restored and played in 1976 $44,000 is how much an Enron trademark logo, a 1.5 m tall, stainless steel, tilted "E", was sold for at auction last week...
...prediction for global growth in 2003 from 4% to 3.7%, cut the E.U.'s forecast increase from 2.9% to 2.3% and slashed the U.S. outlook nearly a point, to 2.6%. A Brand That Won't Quit At least there's still a hot market for one commodity: schadenfreude. The auction in Houston for Enron leftovers attracted 3,000 people. The most-desired item? The famous "crooked E" that adorned the energy trading company's headquarters; it sold for $44,000. BOTTOM LINES "Yesterday I died. That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you." Warren...