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Irving Azoff, chief executive of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., doesn't mince words when he talks about the amplified negative press that's surrounded his company's bid to merge with Live Nation Inc. since the deal was announced in February. "It's really good that some of the press and some of the consumer groups out there that have hated the fact that there's been service charges on tickets and have hated Ticketmaster for the last 20 years have been able to spin all you people," he said sarcastically. "But quite honestly it's a line of bull crap...
...Tweet Deal. Marriott's gotten into the whole social network thing. Follow @MarriottIntl on Twitter, or check the hotel's website, to get the Deal of the Day every weekday at 7 a.m. EST through June 12. Deals can include discounts on room rates, free nights or free breakfasts at the hotel chain's Caribbean, Hawaii and California resorts. A sample from last week: two nights of a six-night stay free at Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort on St. Thomas. You get 24 hours to jump on that day's deal...
...singer Susan Boyle. The top three stand-up-comedy DVDs on Amazon's best-seller list are Dunham's. And his Very Special Christmas Special last November, featuring Achmed, was the highest-rated show Comedy Central has ever aired. In March the network signed him to a massive series/special/DVD/book/tour deal. "I look at it like a very large aircraft taking off," says Dunham. "It takes a long runway to get anything significant up in the air." (See pictures of Susan Boyle's road to fame...
...Zarqawi, says old-fashioned criminal-investigation techniques work better than the Army manual. "Often I'll use tricks that are not part of the Army system but that every cop knows," says Alexander. "Like when you bring in two suspects, you take them to separate rooms and offer a deal to the first one who confesses." (Alexander, one of the authors of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq, uses a pseudonym for security purposes...
...second invitation to speak, Sessions, concerned that she'd upstage Gingrich, vetoed her speaking role. "Chairman Sessions is a big supporter of Governor Palin, which is why he invited her to be the keynote speaker when the event was first announced," said NRCC spokesman Ken Spain. "A great deal of effort has been put into this fundraising event, and Speaker Gingrich has gone above and beyond the call of duty. It is our hope that Governor Palin will attend the dinner and be recognized, but we understand if her busy schedule doesn't permit her to do so." (See pictures...