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...Ticketmaster wants to gobble concert promoter Live Nation to further extend its reach. (Live Nation, which puts on more than 16,000 live shows annually, also recently launched its own ticketing service.) Word of a Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger has angered fans and performers alike, including Bruce Springsteen. Ticketmaster was already on The Boss's bad side after it recently directed fans to its secondary sales apparatus, which charges more, while regular tickets were still available. (The company publicly apologized.) An open letter on Springsteen's web site expressed his outrage: "The one thing that would make the current ticket...
...Moreover, most of us take pride in the Harvard community. Events such as the Game and house formals are meant to augment our community spirit—indeed, these are the few times we exit our self-obsessed lives to fight against a common enemy (Yale) or enjoy one another’s company. Relationships between those who rip off and those who get ripped off, as well as all of the witnesses, are certainly strained. The exchange can be compared to the sketchy guy on the dance floor who is taking advantage of an inebriated peer, except the victim...
...forth in the media following Suleman's hiring a public-relations agent less than a week after the octuplets' birth. Joann Killeen, president of the Killeen Furtney Group, was hired to field book, movie and TV offers for her client. During an interview on Larry King Live on Feb. 3, Killeen portrayed Suleman as a "wonderful woman." "She's smart, she's bright, she's articulate, she's well educated. She is just a delight. And I can't wait for the media to get to meet her," Killeen said. "She's a very balanced woman. She's got perspective...
...Burton's" was actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association. "Too often, deference to religion in contemporary American society has resulted in us subordinating all other values," says Dr. Richard Sloan, professor of psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. "The law must recognize that the right of children to live supersedes the rights of their parents to free expression of religion...