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...minute America's best-known jurist bangs his gavel, onlookers in the nation's most famous courtroom attentively come to order. Not the U.S. Supreme Court, silly -- The People's Court, with 11 million viewers daily, featuring Judge Joseph Wapner and his 30-minute brand of homespun jurisprudence. Now in A View from the Bench (Simon & Schuster; $17.95), the judge describes the evolution of his electronic philosophy...
Christie's was not worried. The British auction house rented London's Royal Albert Hall last week, invited 3,000 guests and started the bidding at $3.6 million. Bids came by phone from two continents. Two minutes later, the gavel came down. Sold, for $9.8 million, the highest price ever paid for a car. The buyer, a London vintage-car dealer named Nicholas Harley, said afterward, "Structurally, it's a work of art. I look forward to driving it." Sure, but keep an eye on those hubcaps...
...When the gavel came down and the auctioneer said "Sold," the standing-room- only crowd at Sotheby's in New York City gasped, and then broke into applause. Vincent van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece Irises had just been bought by an unnamed foreign bidder for $53.9 million, the highest price paid for an artwork at auction...
Unlike either of the Davids, Walter Sullivan isknown to avoid public speaking. He rarely attendscampaign forums, and his only visiblecontributions to most Council meetings arewell-timed strokes of the gavel...
...Court. One after another, popular foods from butter to beef have been hauled into the dock and charged with crimes against health and humanity. "Guilty," the jury of popular and scientific opinion has snapped each time. The punishment: a sentence to suffer lower sales and market shares. Bang of gavel. But these days, food manufacturers have wised up. They are now mounting aggressive advertising campaigns to press claims that their products have got a bum rap and to extoll the benefits of the genuine article. Enter the rehabilitation of real food...