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...decade after Pearl Jam's failed "Ticketbastard" crusade against the ticketing giant, the Web is doing what lawsuits couldn't: raising the bar with a healthy dose of competition. While Ticketmaster, part of Barry Diller's Interactive Corp., still dominates the industry--it sold 128 million tickets last year, compared with Tickets.com's 76 million--it is fending off threats from every direction. Some of its biggest customers--concert promoters and professional sports leagues--are finding ways to sell their own tickets. Smaller ticketing outfits are attracting museums and concert halls with software that gives them closer fan connections. Worst...
...orchestra normally performs in the intimate setting of Lowell Lecture Hall, but for this tenth-anniversary concert, Pops will perform to a larger audience in Sanders Theatre. Sanders Theater, usually home to the tuxedo-clad players of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will get a good dose of the whimsical when Pops invades, according to Weinbloom. “It’s going to be tricky to fit that inclusive group theatricality of [Lowell Lecture Hall]…into the formality of Sanders, but Sanders also gives us a lot more possibility acoustically,” he says...
...Hoya--Mayweather, however, has the potential to remind the world why boxing was once a sport that mattered. The match offers a compelling contrast in both personality and fighting styles, plus a healthy dose of family psychodrama. Mayweather grew up fighting in Grand Rapids, Mich., where his father, Floyd Sr., taught him how to punch in his stroller. When Floyd was a year old, his mother's brother pulled a gun on his dad. "I told him, 'If you're going to kill me, you're going to kill him too,'" says Mayweather Sr., who was holding his son. "'That...
...outburst appears to be half in jest. And that notwithstanding, the vice president has acquired enough perspective in the last few years that he’s not inclined to blow political issues out of proportion. Sundquist’s first months at Harvard came with a sizeable dose of contingency, as his mother’s bout with cancer—following on the heels of other family illnesses—rendered it uncertain whether his time would not be better spent at home. Although the disease did recede, allowing him to continue his studies, he says the events...
Questions have also been raised about the machine’s safety. X-ray exposure is generally considered unhealthy, so if passengers had to receive a hefty dose of them every time they were about to step on a plane, using the SmartCheck would be a blatant violation of civil liberties...