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Women think men don't like to shop. Wrong: we do. As long as there's competition involved. Send us to Saks to buy socks, and we're bored. But let us shop at eBay, with the clock ticking down on an item we really don't need and may not even want, and our sportsman's juices surge: It's the two-minute warning at Super Bowl XXXVI. (New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17.) For guys at an online auction, it's not just the getting that counts, it's the crushing of another bidder's acquisitive...
...been a very big battle to make it come true." While a dialysis machine can cost as little as $A40,000 - roughly the price of an off-road vehicle or a good Papunya Tula painting - nursing overheads and the need for water filters make it an expensive item in the desert. But, circulated among a group of well-connected Papunya Tula supporters, from AGNSW curator Hetti Perkins to Tim Kingender, the Aboriginal art specialist at Sotheby's auction house, the idea took hold. In late '98, with "Genesis and Genius" just over a year away from opening, Kingender recalls Toyne...
...greatest treasure the world has ever known, ever. Cage, who seems to have convinced himself that he’s a modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a 10-dollar bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo J.V.—cracks an ironic smile and asks...
...Game is coming up soon, and FM wants to help you in your quest to buy the best T-shirt for the occasion: that perfect item that will warm the hearts of Harvardians past and present, and boil the blood of those New Haven scoundrels...
...count. George H.W. had a copy of Kitty Kelley's dubious family chronicle in his desk, and he did not read it as a book but lifted it out when he got an outraged missive from somebody mentioned in the book and consulted the index to read the offending item, most times agreeing with the person who expoded. Then he put the hefty volume away and was more than a little gratified when it began to fade with the reading public. Michael Moore was another source of pique. Bush wondered why former President Jimmy Carter would...