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...choice of fighting back.” said Nathan M. Boaz, a close friend and classmate of Kremer.Along with 90 of his classmates and Janice H. Hammond, the Philips professor and senior associate dean, Kremer led a candy fundraiser for Valentine’s Day and hosted an online auction for ALS research last spring.Kremer and Boaz aimed to raise $100,000 from these endeavors—an unprecedented amount for section fundraisers. They exceeded even their own expectations, raising $150,000. “I think that Avi and [his classmates] show what a fairly small group of human...
...MILLION Record price paid at auction for a Ming dynasty vase purchased by Las Vegas gaming magnate Steve Wynn, who said he would donate it to a museum in Macau $1.1 BILLION Cost of the casino Wynn is building in Macau...
...painting is being sold by a Chinese-American collector. Auction firm Huachen, which downplays the piece's historical significance, describes Mao's expression in the portrait as "amiable." That's probably not how Mao would feel if he found out about the sale. All art should be "for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers," he wrote in his Little Red Book. The auctioneers, who value the painting at about $150,000, must not have taken that chapter to heart. "We feel it's just like any other art product," says...
...million Price paid last week for a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin, the highest ever for a musical instrument sold at auction $192,000 Winning bid for a rare 1960 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, the third highest price paid for an item at the same auction...
That was the winning bid made by a group of Currier House seniors at their HoCo’s Dutch auction fundraiser. They shelled out the big bucks for a customized piece of Undergraduate Council legislation, sponsored by Currier UC Rep Carmelo C. Tringali...