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...auction of photographs and Julia paraphernalia followed, in which bidding for a whisk reportedly purloined from Child’s own kitchen hovered at $300. When a 10-person dinner cooked by chefs from Rialto and Oleanna was tacked onto the offer, the closing bid came...

Author: By Iron Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Holds Feast For Departing Julia Child | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...Foreman and Boy weren't. Politico George is used to spending time with monkeys. "People send me Curious George paraphernalia," he said. Plimpton found relief from turbulent times: "Children's literature," he said, "is not much stricken by outside things." This year, however, money to be raised from an auction of yellow hats (it's a George thing) will help the museum remain free to the families of fire fighters, police officers and EMTs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 5, 2001 | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Dell, have such enormous scale and low cost structures that they can use aggressive pricing to bleed their rivals. Other relatively smaller players, like Toyota, Steel Dynamics and Southwest Airlines, are so efficient and innovative that they can steal customers away from lumbering giants. Certain companies, like online-auction dynamo eBay, offer a service that lots of struggling firms and consumers are eager to use in hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are These CEOs Smiling? | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...included in a fantasy novel. Our fee for his mention on this list? For $5 we'll call it even Losers PAUL STANLEY Singer's hip surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that 24-in. platform boots are not a good, long-term, orthopedic solution CHRISTIE'S Auction house cheats itself by selling million-dollar violin for $48,000. Ups opening bid for Golden Girls collectible plates to $2 million BOB DYLAN Legend denied backstage entry to own show as guards don't recognize him. Finally got in by claiming to be Mick Jagger's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Most of our companions appeared to have obtained their passes through an Internet auction, the proceeds of which went directly to RAINN, the national hotline Amos founded for survivors of rape, abuse and incest. I asked the fan sitting closest to me, a middle-aged man, how much he’d paid in the highest...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

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