1.10 Takashi Hashiyama, president of the Japanese electronics firm Maspro Denkoh Corporation, was torn between commissioning Christie’s or Sotheby’s to auction the company’s $20 million art collection, which included a van Gogh, a Cézanne, and an early Picasso (Carol Vogel, “Rock, Paper, Payoff,” New York Times, April 29, 2005, A1, A24). He resolved the issue by having the two auction houses’ representatives compete in the playground game of rockpaper-scissors. A rock (fist) breaks scissors (two extended fingers), scissors cut paper (flat hand), and paper smothers rock. At stake were several million?