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...scandalous book Sex discusses the mellowing effects of motherhood: "I've been naked in every state and country... I've dated the NBA...I dealt with my sexual rebellion. I worked it out of my system." Which no doubt makes her a more appreciative audience for the magazine's Buyer's Guide to state-of-the-art electric ranges...
...decidedly downscale. "People knew tequila as what they drank in college to get drunk," says Alex Alejandro, co-owner of New York City's oldest Mexican restaurant, El Parador. The restaurant has stocked premium tequilas for all its 40 years, but it hasn't always found a ready buyer. "Ten years ago, the average consumer wasn't willing to pay more than about $4 a shot," says Alejandro...
Auction houses charge two commissions on sales--one from the buyer, the other from the seller. It's perfectly legal to drop or raise your prices after a rival does; gas stations facing off across an intersection do it all the time. What's illegal is for two or more rivals to form a "cartel" by agreeing in advance to fix a price. One of the signs that this may be happening is a close, copycat pattern of changes--and this, the Justice Department claims, is what has been happening for years between Sotheby's and Christie...
...necessarily a return to the excess-ridden '80s or the dopey conglomerates of the '60s. But cross-industry takeovers hit a 10-year high last year, when 22% of companies taken over in the most acquisitive industries were not in the same business as their buyer, according to research firm Securities Data. That's up from...
Lessig considered one issue in particular--whether Microsoft engaged in illegal "tying," by integrating Internet Explorer into Windows. Tying refers to a firm selling one product and requiring the buyer to purchase a different, "tied" product...