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...Auctions only work for shoppers if they do a little research. Consumers need to know the price of a given item in the local grocery store, and discipline themselves not to bid above that number. Such self-restraint is no easy task. "We joke all time about the Little Debbies," says Chris Crepeau, owner of Michigan Auction Sales in Holt, Mich. "People always want those specific snack cakes, and pay too much for them." The auction process sweeps up some shoppers - I just want to win, darn it, no matter how much I pay for that dog food. Others figure...
...graduated from UCLA with a degree in Communications. Have you found any real-world uses for those boring classes you had to sit through? SBB: I think my time studying communications wasn’t mostly about a trade than it was about experiencing college, which was about self-exploration. I don’t pull out those series and things often, but I had a good time while I was there. 9. FM: In college you won Spring Sing, UCLA’s annual music competition. Twice. You sang in Awaken a Capella, a co-ed a Capella group...
Paul, Rep. Ron • unhappiness of at being fooled by Sacha Baron Cohen and finding self being interviewed by a suddenly disrobing "Bruno...
...their attire, are a movement of royalists, big businessmen and urban middle class Thais who are opposed to the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup, convicted of conflict of interest charges by Thai courts last year and is now living in self-imposed exile. Sondhi's firebrand speeches full of demagoguery rallied crowds of supporters in prolonged, occasionally violent, protests last year against Thaksin, but he has been accused by critics of stoking hatred against rural people, who form Thaksin's support base, and of being antidemocratic for advocating appointed, as opposed...
...series of public events on what would have been his 90th birthday, the matter is still a delicate one. So those who knew him, and those who were inspired by him, have decided to continue Hu's work in Hong Kong. "I know Hong Kong has many problems, like self-censorship," Meng said at a downtown coffee shop a few weeks ago here in the former British colony as he evaluated his political options in China. "Hong Kong also has a reputation for not caring about politics. But it is still a good platform." And so the publisher, who still...