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...Responding to criticism that Ticketmaster was approaching monopoly status by the mid-1990s, Rosen told the New York Times his critics were fueled merely by "jealousy and envy." By then, Ticketmaster had already swallowed the company that had previously dominated the market, Ticketron, and was in the process of evolving its business model from selling tickets only over the phone and at retail outlets to the marketing them on the Internet. (Read "Going After Ticketmaster...
...ailing banking system. The second will be the failure of governments' debt expansions to increase the cost of funding. In other words, the long end of the yield curve will continue to be depressed, just as it has been in Japan for the past 16 years. In the early 1990s observers in Japan argued that 10-year Japan government-bond yields of 3.5% could not persist for long. That was when the government debt-to-GDP ratio was around 50%. It now stands at 150% and 10-year yields are 1.36% (having gone as low as 60 basis points...
...built the complex in a former municipal funeral parlor at the center of the troubled Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French photographer friend, Tricky - the man behind the 1990s music revolution known as trip-hop - decided to come to Flandres in January and launch a project to seek out and record young local talent...
...Dahlan certainly has a score to settle with Hamas, which routed his U.S.-funded security forces in a 2007 showdown and drove them out of Gaza. And the Islamists have long loathed the Fatah strongman, whom they blame for alleged torture of Hamas detainees in Gaza during the late 1990s - an accusation Dahlan denies. But Hamas appears to be in no mood for unity talks with Dahlan's boss, either, despite Arab efforts to broker a reconciliation. And that could imperil the flow of international aid to Gaza, battered by Israel's 19-month economic blockade and the war that...
...Ganczarski, 42, did not deny he'd made several visits to camps run by Afghan and Pakistani militant groups in the late 1990s - and was even filmed with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during one visit in January, 2000. But despite denying any involvement in the Tunisian attack - "an act I cannot support", he said - the court found Ganczarski guilty of complicity in the plot. Ganczarski is appealing the ruling. (See pictures of al-Qaeda...