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“I went in there prepared to pay whatever it took,” Gates said. But he was worried enough about a bidding war that he sought additional funding from publishing companies, he said. “One letter from Frederick Douglass at the same auction sold...
According to Gates, the publishing houses declined to support his efforts financially for the same reason that he faced no bidding opposition: Nobody had verified the authenticity of the work. The problem, however, lay in the fact that he could not prove the manuscript was legitimate until after he had...
An 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 to $2500.
Wycliffe and his cohort may soon get their wish. Berkeley is gentrifying fast. Its median house price is four times the national average, thanks to an influx of yuppie couples and dot-commers who have spent the past decade bidding up the prices of two-bedroom bungalows. And because California...
Two days before Ze'evi's death, India, in retaliation for a suicide bombing that killed 42 people in Srinagar, launched a bombardment across the Line of Control into Pakistani-held Kashmir. The attack took place on the very day that Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Islamabad to...