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...million-dollar contract continue at this pace, it is likely that our critics will have less and less to say of genuine interest. Naturally, there will be exceptions--the rich writer who "doesn't buy his own smoke," as my great uncle likes to say. On the whole, we can imagine a bevy of writers trotting out clever anecdotes about caviar parties of making up involved historical "episodes" without anything more worthwhile to say. I do not think we have to be worried just yet, however. The economy is bound to relax a bit, the contracts should come down...
Most Crimson employees stay with the million-dollar corporation for less than four years, but three employees have devoted a collective 62 years of their lives to the building located at 14 Plympton...
...force that has quashed multiple coup attempts since 1991. Richard Haass, who directed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Gulf War, says, "I have yet to see anything remotely persuasive about how you could take out Saddam. A wish is not a policy." One suggestion: million-dollar rewards have helped the U.S. catch foreign terrorists by giving their confederates an incentive to snitch. What about $500 million, the cost of only 400 cruise missiles, for delivering Saddam to a war-crimes tribunal...
...today's art market, million-dollar prices are as common as bugs on a bayou pickup's windshield. You need eight figures to make news, and even then it may not work. The early results of the fall auction season--which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz...
Holmes Realty Trust, a Newton, Mass., real-estate company, plans to bring a $20-million-dollar retail mall, apartment complex and parking garage to Mass Ave. To do so, it will raze 12 stores and displace 11 other businesses currently located there, according to store owners...