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...rare pink diamond set for auction last week in Sotheby's New York City gallery was, like the venerable institution, one of a kind. Appraisers at the 239-year-old auction house had estimated the value of the nearly flawless 9.58-carat gem at more than half a million dollars. But the day before the diamond was due to be auctioned, Sotheby's officials had a problem: the stone was missing...
Police and FBI officials were as mystified as the management of Sotheby's. The gem, known as Lot 296 and owned by a consortium of Japanese businessmen, had been protected by armed security guards and videocameras that snapped pictures every ten seconds. Nonetheless, when a customer asked to examine Lot 296 more closely, a startled Sotheby's clerk found in its place a cheaper diamond substitute (value: $10,000), apparently dabbed with pink nail polish...
...ensuing free position. Gem Simmons flicked a high shot into the corner of the net to give the Crimson a 2.0 margin Maggie Hart scored twice in the first stanza. Finn tallied again and freshman Blair Wardenburg scored her first goal of the season to make the halftime score...
...awkward scene that just doesn't work. Just Desserts is not a play, but rather a string of scenes of unequal strength. Like a stand of beads, this string occasionally breaks and director Koury needs to do some re-cringing before her show will be the little gem it could...
...prints from a single negative to produce one that he liked, could not fault the painstaking care devoted to this book. It contains The Steerage (1907), of course, and also Winter, Fifth Avenue (1893), an early work that helped make Stieglitz famous. Yet every page turns up a gem, an unforgettable image...