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Daughters Katie and Emma, 7 and 5, were spinning the globe in search of exotic destinations as Phillips took off for a long weekend in Ecuador and Peru. He got home March 13, seriously jet lagged but 1 million miles richer. The only problem is that he gets just 18 vacation days a year, and neither pudding nor miles can buy more...
...damage to the auctioneers' reputation could be equally severe. Their woes fall at a time when they seemed to be growing ever richer and more powerful. The art market had rebounded; sales were up. Both firms had invested in glossy and expensive new Manhattan headquarters. Sotheby's fortunes, particularly, were expansive, as it opened outlets in Amsterdam and Zurich and spent more than $40 million to make itself a presence on the Internet, including a partnership with Amazon.com Accordingly, Sotheby's has taken the greater fall. Its stock, which was at 47 last April, closed last Friday at 19.5, after...
...looking for an esoteric pattern to the endless stream of numbers, past piles of losing tickets littering the puke-green floors, I feel somehow enlivened. I know that, in the best of all worlds, I'll make the 100-yard walk to the T poorer twice as often as richer. But I also know that tomorrow, I could make the super and catch my own Ticket Out of Here...
...Daniel G. Habib '00 has never been richer. He drinks unfiltered water, writes unfiltered prose and smokes, unfiltered, like a ham. Despite the attention brought by his muttonchops, however, his origins and his intentions remain--even to his closest compatriots--utterly unknown...
...tonight, as I do every time I come here. Invariably though, other people do seem to win. The young Cambodian man sitting next to me at blackjack was, during the course of one hand, dealt the seven of clubs three times in a row, making him $5,000 richer, thanks to a $1 side bet. However, he tells us he's been dropping money into the casino every weekend for the past three years. He was probably...