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...there any parts of Tracy Morgan that you wish were more like Tracy Jordan? -Alice Rodgers, Belfast Yes. I wish Tracy Morgan had $300 million. That's about it. (See the many faces of Tracy Morgan...
...turned 40 this summer, and you've witnessed essentially the entire history of hip-hop. What stands out? When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. Now you got 5 million people. First it was about partying and fun. Then it went to a way to express oneself without having to physically express it. Then after a while, hip-hop became more socially conscious. Then it went to the celebrity [phase]. And now we're in a state where it's unbalanced. A lot of artists don't necessarily have...
...been reluctant to certify the work. There is no record of the painting's former ownership, and examinations by experts including a former director of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art have deemed it inconsistent with Pollock's style. Despite the skepticism, Horton fielded a $5 million offer for the painting (which she declined) and starred in a 2006 documentary about her find, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock...
Cases like these underline the fact that art authentication is a high-stakes game. Da Vinci's portrait has been renamed La Bella Principessa, and its estimated value has been adjusted to about $160 million - a price tag that could result in an unimaginable profit for Peter Silverman, the painting's owner, who acquired it for about...
...masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for early morning shifts on Sunday found thousands of Federal police deployed to enforce a government decree shutting down the company. A special edition of the government gazette decreed that because of inefficiency and unacceptable losses, the state-run utility that provides power to 25 million people in the heart of Mexico had ceased to exist. Its 44,000 employees were immediately terminated, depriving the nation's oldest industrial trade union of its entire membership. The plants were kept running by federal electricity workers bused in to take over...