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...auction house and billionaire shopping-mall developer; of colluding with Christie's to fix prices, defrauding art sellers of millions in commissions; in New York City. Despite defense denials, the jury apparently believed star witness Diana Brooks, Sotheby's former CEO, who testified that Taubman helped hatch the scheme in 1993. He faces three years in prison and a $350,000 fine...
...This scheme will only hurt the University in the long run. The fee hike that will take effect in January will only make HSTO less competitive with the falling prices of the cellular phone industry. Even those who harbor the most stalwart opposition to cell phones (like me) will balk at the growing prices that HSTO offers and opt for the cell phone instead. As more students take this alternative, a vicious cycle will ensue. Fewer students will use HSTO for long distance service, lowering its revenue. In order to break even, HSTO will have to raise the rates, causing...
...Noises Off and Mamma Mia!, have done their bit for the war effort by offering escape: innocent laughs or peppy songs. Metamorphoses takes a tougher, more rewarding tack. It doesn't turn away from human troubles and tragedy; it looks for their larger meaning, their place in the divine scheme, the way they can lead to understanding, acceptance and (with luck) redemption. They also make for great stories. Like Julie Taymor's The Lion King, Metamorphoses is avant-garde theater at its most vital and ingratiating. Disney, take note...
When U.S. prosecutors indicted Sotheby's and Christie's, the country's pre-eminent auction houses, in a price-fixing scheme earlier this year, observers were giddy at the prospect of watching the high-toned lead players testify against each other in court. Last week Diana Brooks, Sotheby's elegant, blond ex-president, who was once considered the most powerful woman in the art world, did not disappoint. Brooks, who pleaded guilty last year to antitrust conspiracy and agreed to testify for the government, charged that her former boss, A. Alfred Taubman, was behind the plan that allegedly bilked patrons...
...scrappy Taubman--a shopping-mall tycoon who bought the art house in 1983--has denied the charges and asserted that Brooks was responsible for the scheme. He could take the stand this week, when the defense continues its case. Like Brooks, he faces up to three years in prison and fines of $350,000. And if the courtroom scrapping sounds good enough to be on TV, rest assured it soon will be. Sigourney Weaver has already been cast to play Brooks in an upcoming HBO movie...