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...week, Van Gogh's 134th birthday, was less a market transaction than a quasi-religious rite. The house was being washed in the blood of Vincent, the Lamb of Modernism. (And none too soon, skeptics might say, since less than two years ago the president of Christie's, David Bathurst, had to admit that he had tried to rig the market by falsely announcing he had sold a Van Gogh and a Gauguin...
...Though Sotheby's insists that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president: "Using art as an investment scares the hell out of me. There's going to be a flood of money in and out, leaving a sound market devastated because of people who shouldn't have been there in the first place...
...tall man (6 feet 2 inches), but not particularly handsome, Jefferson married relatively late, at 28. his wife, lovely, musical Martha Wayles Skelton, was the widow of his college friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged the traveling time and arrived with his new bride at Monticello in the snow late one night. Only a one-room building for his use was completed at the tune, and the servants had all gone to bed, leaving no fires burning. Despite that inauspicious beginning, the Jeffersons appear unusually contented...
...Rein is following an old Harvard strategy. He has turned to Bathurst, Gambia (Thomas and Gomez's home country) for three of his starting players...
...Charlie is one of two Gambians on Harvard's soccer team. He began playing soccer in his home town. Bathurst, at the age of seven. Regular soccer balls were at a premium, so Charlie and his friends began playing soccer by kicking around stuffed stockings. As they grew older, they used old tennis balls, moving on to rubber balls, half the size of soccer balls, as they grew more experienced. "Tennis balls were really great because they improved our reflexes. When we finally began to play with regular soccer balls, our reactions had become so quick that...