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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticketmaster, Live Nation: Obama's Antitrust Test | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

...extensive fundraising campaign to be undertaken by Harvard—or by any other educational institution—at the time. Quincy’s construction translated President Pusey’s ambitious plans for an expanded campus into a modern, eight-story high-rise reality.AVANT-GARDE OR ARTISTIC MISHAP?As the first undergraduate residence to be built after the original seven river Houses of the early 1930s under President Lowell, in 1959 Quincy represented a new Harvard, breaking with the Georgian-modeled House system. The current site of Quincy House was formerly occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall?...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Quincy Residents Establish a New House Spirit | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...this time for a final servicing visit to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope - and once again the world is sweating out reports of damage to the spacecraft's thermal tiles caused by debris shed from the external fuel tank during liftoff on Monday. It was just that kind of mishap that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew back in 2003, allowing superheated gases to penetrate the ship during re-entry and causing it to disintegrate. That was the second shuttle to be lost in flight, after the explosion of Challenger in 1986. The hope now is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Shuttle: Same Old Damage, Same Old Worries | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...twenty-sixth birthday, Jessica Darling runs into her ex-boyfriend at the airport. When he learns Jessica missed her flight, Marcus fabricates his own travel mishap. Stranded together for 12 hours, they finally sort out their decade long history, without particular emphasis what happened in the three years since she turned down his marriage proposal. “Perfect Fifths,” Megan McCafferty’s fifth novel, is light reading, but it’s also an intelligent, stylized, humorous exploration of the psychology of memory and narrative. Since McCafferty’s debut...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Perfect Fifths' Picture Perfect | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

This past Saturday, the first Harvard Australian Studies Symposium brought Australian and American archaeologists together. And this past Saturday, a scheduling mishap bridged even greater divides by bringing these archaeologists to the Queen’s Head Pub Drag Show...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life's a Drag | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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