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...incestuous, trend-conscious world of international art collectors and the hot money of the roughly 500 new millionaires that China's boom has thrown up come together, it could push prices for Chinese art to even more dizzying levels. "You are already seeing works that sold for a few thousand dollars being bought for $50,000, $60,000, $70,000," says artist and Beijing gallery director Zhao Gang. "And right now there's no end in sight." He cites the case of Zeng Fanzhi, until recently a relatively unknown artist. "Two years ago, I was selling his work...
Daisuke Matsuzaka has never thrown a pitch in the majors, but that didn't stop the Boston Red Sox from paying the Seibu Lions $51.1 million just for the right to negotiate with the Japanese sensation. The righthander has even inspired some suspicious lore: his "gyroball," a supposedly unhittable sinking fastball (it sounds like a ruse). So buyer beware: while a few highly paid Japanese imports, like Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees, became All-Stars, others have memorably struck...
Rainy weather has thrown a kink into the festivities leading up to Saturday’s Harvard-Yale Game, prompting the cancellation of yesterday’s pep rally and the relocation of Saturday’s tailgate from Ohiri Field to an undetermined location. The new tailgate location will be announced online at www.thetailgate2006.com and www.college.harvard.edu by noon today, according to an e-mail sent to the student body by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 yesterday afternoon. “The tailgate is not being canceled. It’s just being relocated...
...Harvard’ during preseason,” Fitzpatrick recalls. “But once people learned my name, it was slowly phased out. I got a lot of comments about Good Will Hunting, a few ‘how ’bout them apples’ comments thrown...
...Once that shot came, Fitzpatrick, a late seventh-round draft pick, took advantage. He was thrown into the fray early in the second half of his rookie season, coming off the bench in a game against the Houston Texans with the Rams down 17-3. The Crimson’s all-time leader in total offense went 19-for-30 for 310 yards and three scores in leading St. Louis to a highly improbable 33-27 victory...