Word: fronting
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...front-row ticket at Yankee Stadium for $2,500? Fuhgeddaboutit. With fewer fans packing the new $1.5 billion ballpark (and rows of empty seats creating an embarrassing eyesore on TV), the franchise announced it would slash prices for premium seats by as much as 50% and give extra seats to season-ticket holders. Still, with average tickets costing 75% more than those at the old stadium, it may not be enough to get New Yorkers to play ball...
...found his way to Harvard.At the moment, Kantrovitz is in the Graduate School finishing up his master’s degree in Statistics. Once he’s done, he’ll relocate to the Bay Area, where a job in the Oakland Athletics’ front office is waiting for him.How Kantrovitz arrived at this point is a tale of coincidence mixed with common sense, and luck—both good and bad—mixed with determination, with baseball always at its center.When the St. Louis native left his job as his hometown Cardinals’ Director...
...cups and near-empty rum bottles, and stage left depicts a dorm room with a bunk bed and a cluttered wooden desk.While condensing the college scene into these basic settings, the partitioning also represents the integration of the characters’ very different lives into one continuous narrative. In front of these raised, partitioned sets, the stage is used as a unifying setting in which all the characters come together. The front stage serves as both an extension of the characters’ individual stories and a forum in which to integrate them all.This musical, however, is less...
Five Crimson athletes spoke at a panel last night to discuss queerness and athletics at Harvard in front of an audience of about 30 people in Sever Hall...
...Trying to meet that ambitious goal in such a short time frame may make it hard for lawmakers to make the wisest policy choices. Though advocates say that fixing the health system promises big savings over the long haul, it will take some big, up-front investments - in technology and preventive care, for instance - whose benefits will not begin to take effect for years. And most of the savings will accrue not to the Federal Government - whose direct costs for health care are felt largely through the Medicare and Medicaid programs - but to the economy writ large, where health care...