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...cooking. In subsequent appointments, clients are given three prototypes from which to choose, and then Laurent adds the final touches to the fragrance. The process can take anywhere from six months to three years, depending on the client, and costs $72,600. The finished product arrives in a Baccarat crystal bottle, above left, stamped with Cartier's 13 Rue de la Paix insignia...
WHAT'S BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD? The most popular consumer goods on eBay are designer handbags, shoes and accessories, and high-end crystal, furniture, art and electronics. There are other auction sites too. Amazon has a cooperative marketplace with a store-within-a-store concept, like a Louis Vuitton boutique in Bloomingdale's. Google just launched Base, which brings buyers and sellers together through advertising. Then there are niche players like [my company] portero.com for luxury goods...
...intermittently funny, but not what I?d expected from the current god of comedy. The audience received his jokes indulgently but not warmly. He wasn?t David Letterman (another TV outsider who bombed as an Oscar host in 1995), but he wasn?t Steve Martin or Billy Crystal. There were moments when the usually unflappable Stewart, gauging the tepid response, made the flop-sweat asides of a bombing standup comic. (?Work with me.? ?I?m a loser.?) And part of his problem was that he was working against the prejudices of the room rather than toadying to them...
Benjamin G. Lee, a graduate student in applied physics, is president of the Graduate Student Council. Crystal M. Fleming, a graduate student in sociology, is an at-large representative for the social sciences on the council...
...years that it ran, they performed surreal sketches before sold-out audiences and brought celebrity guests like Bob Saget of “Full House” and Crystal McKellar of “The Wonder Years” onstage for raunchy skits about popular TV shows and Harvard life...