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...Advance Sales Sure, people were lined up with tickets in hand for Heath Ledger's posthumous turn in The Dark Knight, but Jackson has a more enthusiastic and far more universal fan base, now encouraged by the pressure of a deadline. Sony made a hard push for advance ticket sales over and above what most movies command, with the same thrust and hype that live-concert sales get. The result has been impressive: since the Sept. 27 on-sale date, there have been reports of 1,600 advance sellouts. "This is a movie that's tailormade for advance ticketing," says...
...last second, Albanese nearly changed everything. But Pont was barely able to get a hand on her shot at 89:59 and the ball went over the right corner of the goal, giving Princeton its first road shutout of Harvard since...
Harvard was seeking to go over .500 in conference play and ensure it wouldn’t hand Brown its first Ivy win of the year when the two conference foes squared in Providence Friday evening...
...other hand, if you think the competition has been buried under layers of scandal and crass commercialism, you may have never been a fan of the torch relay - and you might be incensed to learn that its roots lie in Nazi Germany. Carl Diem, the secretary-general of the 1936 Berlin Games, pitched the event as a way to infuse the Games with pageantry and buff the mythic image of the Third Reich. That year, on its way from Greece to Germany, the flame passed through Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia - all of which...
...dogsled, snowmobile, horse and plane. It's a safe bet that the journey will court far less controversy than its Chinese predecessor did. That said, the torch itself has raised some eyebrows. Some observers say the elegantly sculpted white staff bears an unfortunate resemblance to a hand-rolled sample of British Columbia's biggest cash crop. "I'm sure the organizers didn't intend for it to look like a joint, but that's what a lot of people are seeing," Jodie Emery, the editor of Cannabis Culture magazine, told the Toronto Star. If that...