Word: siting
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...house Sotheby's is bringing some class (and clout) to the category with its plans to start selling items online, beginning in July with baseball memorabilia. You'll have to wait for the big stuff, though; for now, only items valued under $10,000 will be sold on the site...
...there is no sign that the conflict that is ravaging the country will end soon. Though on-site negotiators pressed last weekend to get ECOMOG-R.U.F. talks started again, they faced a number of problems. The R.U.F. leadership vacuum is one. Another is that Kabbah's government, having seen the effects of a partial victory before, is in no hurry to sue for peace. Aid agencies say the city is still too hot to begin bringing in badly needed food and medicine. On Saturday night, civilians in Freetown were down to desperate rations: leather and pig food. Nigerian commanders...
...will incorporate wax figures from upcoming issues on Scientists and Thinkers (March) and Heroes and Inspirations (June) as they are published. The series culminates with a year-end issue dedicated to the Person of the Century; a space in Madame Tussaud's will be set aside as a permanent site for a statue of the honoree. Additionally, Madame Tussaud's is offering visitors Internet stations where those interested can learn more about the people who have made the TIME 100; or, you can use our website at time.com...
After the instinct to lament passed, the instinct to point fingers took over. "We revolt at being associated with them," Leavitt said of a Salt Lake bid committee that had, in the years preceding the International Olympic Committee's vote on the 2002 site, crossed the palms of I.O.C. members with silver, scholarships for their kids, fancy guns, cowboy hats, skis and other booty that reportedly included call girls. While acknowledging bribery, Leavitt also implied extortion, by way of a "sinister and dark corner of corruption." Robert Garff, a local car dealer and now, gamely, third at bat as S.L.O.C...
Which slowed the flow of largesse not even a little. The situation reached its apex--or nadir, if you prefer--in the bidding for last year's Winter Games, won by Nagano. By 1991 Salt Lake City, always a suitable site and now represented by a savvy bid team, had grown to be an odds-on choice. But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, then one of the world's richest men, had a dream: an Olympics in Nagano. "When I speak, 100 politicians jump" was his calling card. When he said he wanted to be president of Japan's Olympic committee, that group...