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...back my dogs." Don't waste any sympathy on Gillett--he certainly doesn't expect any. Because Gillett is king of the hill again. Actually, 11 of them. His Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc. has acquired 11 ski resorts in just over a year, the latest being Loon Mountain in New Hampshire. He's part of a trend in which four big companies--Vail Resorts, American Skiing, Intrawest and Booth Creek--are rapidly buying up ski areas. The four are banking on snowboarding youngsters and their two-planking boomer parents to create a new era of accelerating growth...
...that is the comet Hale-Bopp, which was for a while the world's most celebrated dot. Since it was an ancient dot, and one that got around a lot, it shed an astral glamour wherever it appeared. Like the President or Sharon Stone, it made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside it. So we nominate Hale-Bopp as Punctum of the Year, a year in which matters large and small left people unexpectedly moved...
Reasons to Have Second Thoughts: Higher taxes than other area towns. Yankee reserve and mountain isolation make for long winters--but for those in need of a hip-city fix, Burlington is an hour away...
Reasons to Move There: Skiing, hiking, country inns and an annual New England Mountain Bike Festival. Controlled growth, above-average schools and hospital, and plenty of Ben & Jerry...
...such heavy fiscal lifting presage, as some hoped, a return to the market boom of the '80s, when squillionaires competed for favored artworks like mountain rams in rut clashing horns over a crag or a mate, and when new money would pay just about anything for just about anything? Obviously not. For instance, at the Ganz sale someone paid $7.9 million for a good Jasper Johns--a far cry from the $17 million paid for a comparable picture at Sotheby's nine years...