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...just a very, very successful one? Botero's corpulent characters - comical but keenly observed renderings of rotund ballerinas, families and Latin American small-town types like the ladies in The Gardening Club (1997) - are instantly recognizable. Even acknowledged reproductions of his work sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Two years ago, the British magazine ArtReview compiled a Top 10 ranking of the most highly valued artists in terms of the total value of sales. Botero came out at No. 5, behind artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg but ahead of Dutch painter Karel Appel and Britain's David...
Consultants from McKinsey & Co. recently predicted that newspapers could lose $4 billion in classified-ad revenue by 2007 because of the rise of websites like eBay, Craig's List and Monster. How threatened do you feel...
Choosing among sites can be confusing. Some charge exorbitant fees while others, like eBay and Stubhub.com offer auctions where bids can rocket through the roof. To avoid overpaying and the nuisance of scanning hundreds of sites yourself, go to FatLens.com a new site that scours the Web for the cheapest concert tix, even if they're offered on Craigslist or by an obscure online discount broker...
Investors paid $150,000 in 2003 for his boyhood home in Norfolk, Neb., but couldn't unload it (even after dropping the price on eBay to $93,500). After Carson's death, it was bought by a firm that develops historic properties...
...address the issue of cadets who are not quite so committed to a lifetime in uniform, the latest West Point innovation is Branch for Service, a program cadets took to calling Branch by eBay. It solves several complex problems with a simple trade. The Army's problem is that too many officers are leaving after their minimum five-year commitment. The cadets' problem is that if you don't have excellent grades, you often can't get the branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely...