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...company's strategy is live performances. Despite the stagnation of record sales, the concert industry is booming. Last year revenues were up 8% to $3.9 billion, and Live Nation is in perfect position to expand its market share. Eight years ago, Live Nation, then a part of Clear Channel Communications, struck a deal with Ticketmaster that gave Ticketmaster exclusive rights to sell most of Live Nation's 30,000 nationwide events. That deal, which accounted for nearly $200 million in revenue in 2007, expires in 2008, and Live Nation's own ticketing system, already the third-largest in the United...
...Kolic said. “She does not pull her punches.” The Edwards family already has some ties to Harvard: Their older daughter, Cate, is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. The other fellows’ arrival marks continued efforts by the IOP to expand its international focus. The first woman to serve as president of Latvia, Vike-Freiberga helped her country gain membership to North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union during her two terms from 1999 to 2007. “She is generally an emblem of gender equality...
Harvard Medical School joined the recent parade of good news on the topic of financial aid, announcing a plan to expand aid grants in order to eliminate any expected “family contribution” toward its $65,000 tuition for students whose families have annual incomes under $120,000. According to the medical school, the change will benefit a third of currently enrolled students. While eligible individuals will still be on the hook for $24,500 of the school’s tuition in the form of loans, the initiative represents an admirable step toward ensuring that cost...
...joined NATO as a guarantee against encroachment by Moscow, which had dominated them from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Back at the close of the Cold War in the early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe, NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site of Kievan Rus, the original state...
...week, said that Seoul was "running out of time and patience" with Pyongyang over the North Korean nuclear issue. On Wednesday, President Lee himself warned that he would speak out against human rights abuses in North Korea; an issue avoided by the past two liberal administrations, and would not expand ties with the country until it abandons its nuclear weapons program...