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...Votes Equal Cash...
...past 13 years, to $425 million in 1999, when more than 12 million tickets were bought at an average price of $35. That's a nightly equivalent of more than 425 double-decker busloads of theatergoers. William Jackson, managing director of NatWest Equity Partners, an equal investor in the 13 theaters with Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, sees even better times ahead. "The demand for live entertainment is increasing," he says, "and there is also a trend toward convergence between filmed entertainment and theatrical entertainment...
...this light, the Vermont decision looks more like Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that allowed "separate but equal" facilities for blacks, than Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that finally required meaningful equality. If that analogy stands, it will be another half-century before gay couples can, in all 50 states, stand in the same line for marriage licenses as others...
...Frum seems to hate the '70s, but at the same time, to regard the decade as a necessary social shaking-out. He says the decade "left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent...
...thing that's kind of irked me a lot because I had one professor who criticized the South for being so racist and slow and blah blah blah, and I agree, the South is racist. And a lot of racists are there. But I have encountered an equal amount of racist, probably more, in Boston...