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...double to almost $30 million in the past five years - $45 million for newer races in Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Korea. As a result, they've jacked up prices for the best seats over a race weekend to an average of $722, a rise of 50% from three years ago. Average three-day attendance fell from 187,724 in 2008 to 161, 613 in 2009. "In Bahrain, all you could see in the stands were a few civil servants," says one attendee. (See a brief history of Formula...
...result of outsiders' failure to try to understand them. Rather, the Iranian government has a deliberate policy aimed at confusing the outside world about its goals and decision-making processes. "There is an intention out there to confuse," a noted Iranian professor told me in Tehran a few years ago. The rulers in Tehran think that opacity and the perception of unpredictability buy them security...
...back to what could have been a Leno monologue from before The Jay Leno Show--and before the Obama Administration, for that matter. Leno and NBC have a delicate task with the Tonight Show relaunch: making an event of something that viewers were watching less than a year ago without too many awkward reminders of what came between. But no one can say Leno isn't comfortable in his new-old job. As opposed to Conan O'Brien--who reveled in stagy awkwardness--Leno is betting that America will respond to a show that's comfortable, familiar and pretty much...
...described the deal as an attempt to move beyond Soviet-era politics, nearby nations have raised concerns about the decision to sell the ships--which can carry troops, helicopters and armored vehicles--to a country that launched an offensive against one of its neighbors (Georgia) less than two years ago...
...respect anyone who peacefully voices discontent, but I can't help but wonder: Where was the concern from these vocal Tea Partyers a few years ago? Our economy is a shambles because of the Bush Administration, yet people congregate to retaliate against President Obama, who has actively tried to undo George W. Bush's mistakes...