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Everbody loves Bob Barker -- everyone, let's say, except the occasional litigious ex--Barker's Beauty or unwillingly neutered collie. And everybody respects Bob Barker. Since he announced his retirement from The Price Is Right (he tapes his last show June 6), the plaudits have rolled in: he has been called a legend, an institution, a record-setting...
...biggest competitor. Major League Baseball bought Tickets.com pumping money into the fledgling site, which is now the second largest ticketing retailer, selling about $1 billion worth annually. "Given the importance of online ticketing, we thought we should drive the car from the front seat rather than the back," says Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com The league doesn't dictate how teams sell their tickets. That business, for now, is divided fairly evenly among Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and Paciolan, a ticketing software firm based in Irvine, Calif. But if the league consolidates its ticketing when these contracts expire, millions of tickets could...
...Being Africa's premier diva is not a crown that Kidjo wears lightly. As an African, she says, she comes from a place with problems. But as a musician, she argues, she can solve them. Kidjo first came to prominence in the 1980s, a time when Bob Geldof was fashioning Live Aid around the idea that music could be charity. Kidjo had an even more ambitious idea, which drew on her voodoo roots in the old African slave port of Cotonou, Benin, where she grew up: music is "the ultimate power," she explains over lunch in Paris, her adopted home...
...many teachers are torn when it comes to Turnitin. "How do you reconcile this [service] with a place that's trying to presume honor?" asks Bob Thompson, Duke University's vice provost for undergraduate education. Duke, which recently endured a cheating scandal at its business school, no longer uses Turnitin--in part because it did not like adding to the company's database--and this spring expanded its honor code by obligating students to take action if they observe or hear about cheating. "We will truly lose the battle if we think we're going to fight technology with technology...