Word: evils
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...those who enjoy concerts, sporting events, Broadway shows, or even the Ringling Brothers Circus, Ticketmaster is a necessary evil. The company makes it easy to find seats at most major venues in the U.S. (and many abroad) and various events are aggregated on one easy-to-use web site. What rankles customers, though, is the fact that Ticketmaster's behemoth status seems to give them the ability to impose expensive fees on top of standard ticket prices. (See TIME's Top 10 Songs...
...What changed the public perception of Ticketmaster from a convenient aggregator into an evil empire was the Internet. People, including music fans, buy everything directly online these days, so it's jarring not to be able to buy concert tickets straight from individual venues or, for that matter, the bands themselves. Plus, it annoys fans that Ticketmaster - with its exclusive agreements with venues and 2008 acquisition of a company that manages artists - has such a stranglehold on the industry. (To be fair, not all of the fees tacked on to ticket prices are collected by Ticketmaster, but the company...
...millions of people like me in Asia and the Middle East, we want President Obama not to judge our governments on rigid categories, whether they're democratic, monarchical, communist or even a member of the "axis of evil," but rather whether this or that government works, serving the needs of a majority of its people. The days of U.S. Presidents viewing the world through ideological lenses must be over, and in President Obama a new dawn is emerging. I am optimistic that he can make a difference for everyone in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Kamaludin...
...mixed bag of ululations and disappointments, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, agreed to enter into a government of national unity (GNU) with fellow opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and the controversial incumbent, Robert Mugabe. Whatever the skepticism and whatever the argument, this deal is a necessary evil...
...Sold the WorldBy William KleinknechtRonald Reagan is pretty much the devil. This is fact. I mean, look at that charming face, that movie star smile, that evil cancer stick dangling from his pretty mouth, coercing impressionable children everywhere to smoke. This book is almost certainly about all the wrongdoing Reagan perpetrated while he hid behind his coy grin and dashing good looks. From Iran-Contra to Reaganomics to introducing crack cocaine to the hood (alright, maybe he didn’t really do this, but damn if he doesn’t make a good scapegoat), there?...