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...sell. These included a Tiffany & Co. Cuban missile crisis calendar paperweight. An asking bid of $300,000 dropped to $100,000 but still failed to draw any interest. The evening's top seller was the Presidential yacht, the Honey Fitz, which fetched $5.4 million from an unidentified telephone bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy Auction Flops | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...Over in the remains of the Evil Empire, the former KGB isn?t faring much better: Its elite appear to have gone into politics and business, while their former subordinates are reduced to hawking secret files to the highest bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dumbing of Intelligence | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...fundraising excesses....When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important) to uphold as fundraising is accelerated. Harvard should not sell out to the highest bidder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A President With the Right Priorities | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...Sawano weakly concludes that the fact that Diana "could never seem to keep close friends or loyal servants" is "evidence" against her "humanity." Try having loyal servants and close friends when everyone around to you is writing a book or selling details of your daily life to the highest bidder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diana Did Not Need An Ivy League Degree to be a Kind Princess | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...whim. So, for that matter, could Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton or Madonna. She would make a terrific conversation piece--one of the biggest and most complete fossil skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. She's called Sue, and she's for sale to the highest bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DINOSAURS: WHO OWNS THE BONES? | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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