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...Sara. Winfrey says she has come to know each of them personally and calls them in at will to guide her in her work. The spirits began visiting her a few years ago, shortly after she bought the property records of various plantations at a Sotheby's auction. A collector of slave memorabilia, Winfrey cherishes the slave papers because these documents serve as the best vessel for connecting her--through name, age and price--to the real human legacy of slavery. While filming Beloved, she kept the slave inventory in her trailer on the set. She dedicated scenes to individual...
...Auction Universe has just begun offering an optional "Bid$afe" policy with money-back guarantees and insurance coverage of as much as $3,000. Of course, every auction involves risk of some sort. Just ask the crestfallen bidders who lost out on that Ulysses S. Grant pillowcase. Or the collector still looking for a matching kidney...
...discreetly join the enormity of his legacy to his domestic woes. The author also leaves the reader in a state of disturbed speculation. If Holocaust revisionism becomes accepted history, how long will it take for Hitler to be remembered as a failed idealist and Goring as a distinguished art collector...
...Russian citizens, cause social and political upheaval and dash Yeltsin's hopes for his legacy as a reformer. At the Kremlin on Friday, he vowed there would be no devaluation and issued a fusillade of decrees on how to get tough with tax dodgers. He fired the chief tax collector and replaced him with Boris Fyodorov, a former Finance Minister and a true reformer. Yeltsin also announced plans to cut spending...
That's the easy part. Appeasing the phone companies will be harder. "While we support the goal of wiring classrooms," says MCI spokesman Brad Burns, "we don't think we should be put in the position of playing fee collector for the Federal Government." The long-distance companies have already begun collecting the surcharge from their business customers, adding as much as 5% to their bills. In July, they warn, they'll place a line-item charge on residential users as well. Phone companies, which are trying to outdo one another by offering service for pennies a minute, claim...