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...Colonel's wildest financial fantasies seem tame. On March 25--the same day she releases a new album and appears in a CBS special--Dion will begin a three-year run at Caesars Palace in A New Day, a concert-dance-theater spectacular directed by former Cirque du Soleil mastermind Franco Dragone. In exchange for five shows a week, 40 weeks a year, Dion will get a reported $100 million plus 50% of the profits. She will also have the Colosseum, a brand-new, $95 million, 4,000-seat theater, at her disposal. In return, Caesars Palace, the faded jewel...
...ability to enjoy. Browsing the aisles, scanning the myriad titles, running admiring fingers over the colorful glossy covers that conceal treasures of literature and poetry and Romance for Dummies, turning the pages of a crisp New Yorker and lounging in the cafe with a latte and a brand-new copy of The Secret History—these are the essences of a luxury that most of us (sadly, unfortunately, tragically) never take advantage of. There’s something infinitely tempting and tantalizing about a new book—turning the pages in greedy anticipation of the next development...
Harvard’s six-month extension could allow Harvard to learn from other colleges’ and universities’ experiences with the brand-new system, Ladd says...
...season opener. When he finally arrived in Houston in late October, Yao had little idea what his teammates were doing on the court. "In the first practice, we could see that he had a lot of skill," says Rockets forward Maurice Taylor, "but he was lost. Brand-new system, brand-new rules--he was a rookie, plain and simple...
...manga comics for 1,000 yen [about $8.50]," she says. "In a regular bookstore they would cost me 4,000." Apart from the low prices, Bookoff is virtually indistinguishable from the regular bookstores in the area, and consumers don't seem to mind that its offerings aren't brand-new. "I just can't buy anything at a full-price store anymore, not when I know the same thing is here for less," Ikeda says...