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...Frank Kramer, the owner of the 72-year-old Harvard Book Store, just a few blocks from WordsWorth, said that his shop was “doing well.” He said that his store’s proximity to Harvard Yard, used book sales and frequent buyer program had helped...
...that they have The Scream, what can the thieves do with it? The very thing that makes some paintings especially valuable--fame--makes them very difficult to fence on the black market. The Scream, an image nearly everybody knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...
Another kind of buyer is financier Warren Buffett, who has planted a cornerstone in the market. Last year Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, spent about $1.7 billion to acquire Clayton Homes, a manufactured-housing company in Tennessee that had sales of $1.2 billion in 2003. This year Clayton, in turn, spent $373 million to acquire Oakwood Homes, which offers a mix of modular and more traditionally manufactured homes. The lower end of the prefab industry is recovering after a wave of defaults resulting from overzealous lending. With interest rates climbing, more customers may now opt for relatively inexpensive manufactured homes...
Beleaguered by management problems and several flopped prime-time seasons, the network was looking for another source of financing for a scripted series. Enter MindShare, a media buyer that wanted to move its advertising clients inside the creative process by producing and underwriting the costs of a new show. It seemed a match made in media heaven. But there were concerns: What if ABC wanted to cancel the show? And how much commercial airtime could the network retain to sell to other advertisers during the program? Network executives also worried that audiences would be turned off if the show seemed...
...soon as the price jumps--or they want the company to be valued as highly as longtime rival Yahoo (which currently beats Google in total profits, as well as quarterly growth). "Either way," says Mark Mahaney, San Francisco analyst for American Technology Research, "this is a real case of Buyer, beware...