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...Sale of the Century, as it was called, was held at Paris' Grand Palais, and it was not a sale at all but an auction of the art collected by the late iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business and former life partner, Pierre Bergé. It's understandable if you want to dismiss the hundreds of millions spent on someone else's stuff as just another example of clueless extravagance in an age of thrift. But for those with means, there was something else for sale, as valuable and just as likely to drive a person to irrational...
...said of the viewing, which was open to the public, "it gives ordinary people the experience of what it might be like to actually own works of this quality." Perhaps the greatest and last gesture of good taste came from Bergé, who announced that proceeds from the three-day sale--$484 million total--would be donated to charity...
Have you always longed to own one of Erez Manela's* discarded tomes? The History Department is hosting a BOOK SALE today through Friday in Robinson Hall. That's right, for only $0.25 to $5.00 you can appreciate all the pleasures of professorial marginalia. 9 am to 7 pm. I would say the History Department is trying to weather the financial crisis, but this happens every year...
...Sale highlights after the jump...
...states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. Even as a backlog of hundreds of thousands of newly built and foreclosed homes are languishing on the moribund housing market, more than 750,000 families are in need of affordable housing. Some low-income residents are finding fire-sale deals, but many more are not; just this past weekend, Fort Lauderdale police had to be called in for crowd control when 5,000 people lined up to get on a waiting list for subsidized housing. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...