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...Ticketmaster chairman Barry Diller ultimately apologized and blamed computer glitches for the ticketing mishap. But industry heavyweights snickered. "That stuff has gone on all the time. When he said it was a computer glitch - ha-ha - I nearly fell off my chair," said Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, the country's second largest concert promoter. "I could not believe it. I mean, these are sophisticated businessmen - my God, a computer glitch?" Not surprisingly, Phillips opposes the merger and has even suggested he may cancel his seven-year contract with Ticketmaster if the deal goes through...
...good news is that in the past two years, the yield curve has gone from a bunny slope to a double black diamond. The difference between the 3-month Treasury bills and U.S. 10-year bond is now 3.65 percentage points. Two years ago, the difference between those two rates was a mere quarter of a point...
...four, an event requiring at least one freshman and one upperclassman among the oarsmen in the crew, saw Harvard finish second in the petite final behind Cornell and eighth overall, following lackluster fifth and third-place finishes in the first heat and repéchage, respectively.Although classes are long gone and commencement has passed too, the Crimson heavyweights are still hard at work. Its final race of a long season will be this Saturday, as Harvard takes on Yale in the 144th Harvard-Yale Regatta in New London, Conn.The Crimson lightweights took bronze in the seven-boat final, the lone...
Along with the frequency of road attacks, military officers say the power of the bombs employed has gone "way up." Twenty-pound charges have been replaced by oil drums packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives, set off by trip wires and pressure plates, that are capable of reducing up-armored humvees to pieces. Under cover of darkness, IED teams burrow deep under the tarmac or wheelbarrow bombs into rain culverts, which number into the thousands in some provinces, spread out over hundreds of miles of road...
...found ahead of the blast crater. The reflective quality of the tape, soldiers said, had allowed militant spotters to be forewarned of the arrival of enemy forces and to time the explosion from afar. Once the detonation cord was traced back to a village compound, the bombers were long gone...