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What do metalsmithing, manners, and Microsoft Excel have in common? If Jay M. Harris and the Undergraduate Council’s ideas come to fruition, you could spend your first January term, or “J-term,” taking a three-week course in such subjects. For 45 minutes at last night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting, Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed Committee, and Council members traded opinions about a J-term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused...
...against Cornell,” Scholl said. “For me, this is probably the biggest game of the season.”It would not be a surprise if it were the same for Tillman and the rest of the players.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...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 States, is prepared to ramp up. With top grossing pop (Madonna), rock (U2) and rap (Jay-Z) acts in its stable, the company certainly won't be short on inventory...
...single company control so much of the live music market is almost guaranteed to mean one thing: ungodly ticket prices. In 2007, the cost of two seats to see Phil Collins and a re-united Genesis warble Mama was around $400, while two of the best seats for Jay-Z's current 28-date Live Nation tour with Mary J. Blige go for $500.00. Anti-trust laws prevent Live Nation from selling more than 10% of its own tickets, but at those prices, 10% adds up fast. For consumers, the pain could be acute. But for Jay...
...carried the newborn hip-hop baby through its development years and into the modern age.But the book’s strength in covering some of the largest hip-hop stars also proves a drawback. By choosing to focus upon such hip-hop icons as Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, and Jay-Z, Reeves is playing to the audience with the stories of the most familiar names in the musical genre. And if we have made these men into hip-hop moguls that are worth upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars, then certainly we should spend the time to understand their history...