Buyout Mogul Shops for U.S. - WSJ.com Mr. Rubenstein began his parchment spree in 2007 when he turned up at Sotheby's<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=BID> BID -0.71%<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=BID?mod=inlineTicker>in New York to bid on a copy of the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English pact that many consider the starting point of Western constitutional democracy. The document was owned at the time by billionaire businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot and housed in the National Archives across the street from Mr. Rubenstein's office. Mr. Rubenstein won with a bid of $21 million, or more than $8,500 per word. After the gavel went down, he told reporters he would return the Magna Carta to the National Archives as "a down payment on my debt to the country for my good fortune." http://on.wsj.com/W1cWpm Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323699704578326233471005160.html?KEYWORDS=buyout+mogul See if people are clicking on this link: http://on.wsj.com/W1cWpm+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
