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Auction houses charge two commissions on sales--one from the buyer, the other from the seller. It's perfectly legal to drop or raise your prices after a rival does; gas stations facing off across an intersection do it all the time. What's illegal is for two or more rivals to form a "cartel" by agreeing in advance to fix a price. One of the signs that this may be happening is a close, copycat pattern of changes--and this, the Justice Department claims, is what has been happening for years between Sotheby's and Christie...
...just 20 miles from the falls. Two are by G.B.S.--The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart--and the rest are by Luigi Pirandello, J.B. Priestley, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Highlights of the repertory season this year include adaptations of Lord of the Flies, the 1954 best seller by William Golding, and Virginia Woolf's A Room...
...really know intimately enough to bond with. Bunches no bigger than that are the best incubators for "contagious messages," Gladwell writes, leaping from there to explain how tight-knit book-discussion clubs talked up the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood until it hit the best-seller list...
...managed this? Because even as they hand out pictures of him in his flight suit, in a brochure that begins, "John McCain is an American hero," even as many in the crowd arrive with a copy of his best seller, he has been able to talk about his experience in a way that sounds humble--anyone in his position would have done the same thing, doesn't take a lot of talent to get shot down. And though many in the crowd conclude that he is made of different stuff, the suggestion that he's completely normal somehow lifts them...
TIME's European edition last week published a 23-page investigative report on Lloyd's by author David McClintick, whose books include the 1983 best seller Indecent Exposure, about embezzlement and power games at Columbia Pictures. The TIME report lends some support to assertions that top Lloyd's execs were aware of the devastating impact that the asbestos claims were likely to have, even as Lloyd's was feverishly recruiting unsuspecting new Names to help absorb the losses...