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...single page contains an annotated chart of where everyone is sitting, marked with who is expected to bid and whether that person is an aggressive buyer or a 'bottom-feeder' looking for a bargain. On each page Burge has also recorded the amounts left by absentee bidders, the seller's reserve (the price under which the work will not sell), and, for almost 40 percent of the lots, the guarantees, or sums assured to each vendor whether the work sells...
...This smart, funny, borderline-practical handbook, which went to No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list and No. 1 on Amazon, is brimming with ideas. In it, Moore suggests a busy agenda for a Democratic President's first 10 days, including drafting rich kids to fight our wars, defeating al-Qaeda by digging water wells around the world, banning high-fructose corn syrup and making HBO free for everyone. He proposes six ways to fix elections - I mean, make the process work. (Oddly, these don't include putting elections for the presidency, the Senate and the House...
...grossing documentaries of all time - it's Moore, Gore and the penguins. Slacker Uprising won't join this company, since it wasn't released in theaters, and it won't be a big moneymaking DVD (as of Sunday night, it was No. 2,829 on Amazon's best-seller list), because Moore is offering it free on his website. There it's sort of a sensation: 2 million hits in the first three days; it reached No. 1 on both iTunes and Amazon VOD. ("The only return any of us are hoping for," Moore writes, "is the largest turnout...
...year - thanks to the bonus payouts - but he isn't expecting a pickup in slow sales anytime soon. He says he is seeing the weakest prices in years on the east end of Long Island, where Wall Streeters have traditionally bought their weekend homes. For example, last week a seller dropped the price on a five-bedroom, 6 1/2-bath, 7,000-sq.-ft. home, located on an acre of land, to just under $3.3 million, down $450,000 from its original asking price in July. "Owners are more motivated to sell than in past market downturns," says Hoffman...
After more than three decades of critical acclaim and many visits to the best-seller list, Hillerman had a favorite anecdote, often repeated. It was about his first agent, who told him that if he wanted to have success as a writer, he'd have to get rid of "all that Indian stuff...