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...defray the costs of broadcasting the 2002 Winter Olympics in high-def so he could carry them on his network. He is shopping in Hollywood for 35-mm movies to be converted to high def. A kids' show is in the works. He even sent veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett to Afghanistan to report a seven-part series, providing the most disturbingly real pictures yet from the war zone--in jarring contrast to the main networks' blurry satellite-phone feeds. Cuban says he would have "no problem" spending $100 million of his $1.9 billion net worth to make HDNet...
...Friday, some 15,000 came just to watch their teams practice for an hour in preparation for the next day's games. Indiana fans Jeromy Arnett, 28, and his brother Shawn, 22, drove from South Carolina to watch practice, after which they were happy to drive back home. "Especially after we saw they wanted $800 for the top section," said Jeromy...
...Saturday morning, folks stood in the pouring rain buying and selling and trying to look inconspicuous. Some fans ate worms and literally got in bed with snakes and rats to win tickets from a radio station. Face value prices went from $120 to $5,000. For that $800, the Arnett brothers could have had seats nearly 100 rows, or 500 feet, from the action. Up there the court measures two by three inches to the naked eye and binoculars rent for $10. Thankfully, the Jumbotrons were working...
...relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars and is shown in museums across the country. For the first time, Dial is financially comfortable. A man of few words, he acknowledges a modest pride...
...when the U.S. became entangled with Iraq inOperation Desert Storm, Simpson fell out of favorwith the press, after he accused CNN correspondentPeter Arnett of being a "sympathizer" with SaddamHussein...