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...event is scheduled to be held in front of the iconic Bird's Nest Stadium in the grounds of the Olympic Training Center. Admission will be free, with some 5,000 tickets directly in front of the stage reserved for VIPs. Garson says he expects a crowd of 50,000, though because the open area around the stage is limited, many concertgoers will watch the stage from screens placed around the grounds. The potential worldwide TV audience, Garson says, will run into the billions...
Playing in front of a loud crowd of 1,125 to celebrate NJIT’s Education Day, the Crimson dimmed the opposition right from the tip-off with a 7-0 run to open the contest. The Highlanders were able to close the gap to 11-7, but Harvard used a soul-crushing 17-0 run to bring its lead...
Ankit Mehra stops in front of a Tata Nano and waits for the crowd to clear. When it thins, the 22-year-old M.B.A. student aims his camera phone at a neon green model of the world's cheapest car and takes a photo. Mehra sees the appeal of the small, sleek car that has gained almost celebrity status in India, but his heart is set on something a bit grander in the New Delhi Auto Expo showroom - the upmarket Audi Q7. (Watch a video on owning a Nano...
Warmth, shelter and free entertainment: it's a compelling offer for Londoners facing a chilly age of austerity. But the capacity crowd that queued before dawn to attend Britain's seven-week-old Iraq inquiry as it prepared to welcome its first headline act, former Labour premier Tony Blair's communications supremo Alastair Campbell, sought more than respite from the cold. "I'm here because I hold this man partly responsible for that terrible, terrible war," explained a retired therapist, shivering in her tweed coat...
...last week's clashes, Palestinians pelted Egyptian forces across the border with rocks, and the Egyptians responded by firing shots and tear gas into the crowd. One Egyptian soldier was killed, reportedly by a Palestinian sniper, and scores of Palestinians were injured. Earlier, Egyptian security forces had clashed with international activists accompanying a relief convoy that had originated in Britain, leaving more than 50 people injured. The group's leader, leftist British MP George Galloway, was expelled from Egypt on Jan. 9, after exiting Gaza...