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...things you want to do before you die. My own "last day on earth" list would include an array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch at the Ivy, dinner at Le Caprice, and a night in the penthouse suite of somewhere historic and magnificent like Claridges...
...step into the fray outside the mosque, people turn to us and smile. "Welcome, welcome," one bearded old man says, bowing his head. Fanning out inside a circle of spectators, the dervishes spin in frenzied circles, sometimes hopping on one foot or leaping across the dusty ground, their robes flaring wildly around them. Robed men circulate among the spectators - other robed men, women wearing the sensuous, cascading traditional dresses called thopes, and the odd group of Westerners with cameras - offering cones of burning incense for people to fan the aromatic smoke toward their faces...
...have voted for Presidents of several different faiths. Some have drawn near to God with their mouths while their hearts remained far from him. We should put religious labels aside and ask candidates about policy positions and try to discern whether their faith puts them on a moral high ground for the betterment of our nation...
Ticketmaster has the most ground to cover in the red-hot resale market. The secondary market for online sports and entertainment tickets--on websites such as StubHub, RazorGator and TicketsNow--has grown to an estimated $3 billion since 2000. The industry leader, StubHub, operates as an open auction, taking a surcharge on each sale. Popular events go for incredible amounts--$10,287 for Super Bowl XLI and $5,500 for Elton John's 60th-birthday bash--but there are also bargains to be had from season-ticket holders, for example...
...this does bring into stark relief a basic question that haunts the music industry: Can consumers be trusted to control their own music without pirating the record labels and the artists they produce right into the ground? The answer is yes. People have been buying and selling music for years without DRM, in a form you may have heard of called the compact disc. CDs have never had DRM attached. Off the record, most executives--on the technology side at least--will tell you that DRM is a dinosaur that's waiting for the asteroid to hit. It's just...