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...that Ticketmaster was approaching monopoly status by the mid-1990s, Rosen told the New York Times his critics were fueled merely by "jealousy and envy." By then, Ticketmaster had already swallowed the company that had previously dominated the market, Ticketron, and was in the process of evolving its business model from selling tickets only over the phone and at retail outlets to the marketing them on the Internet. (Read "Going After Ticketmaster...
...Michelle can be more than a role model for aspiring social activists. The President too has always described his wife as his “rock”: the one who insists staunchly that, in the midst of roaring crowds and political logrolling, he remain focused the principles he’s been fighting for. At the same time, she works hard to keep the rock-star-in-chief’s feet on the ground. After the startling loss in New Hampshire during the primaries, she reportedly remarked to the campaign team, “We need to send...
...seats. Lieberman is the subject of a long-running police probe for corruption (he rejects any implication of wrongdoing), but that doesn't faze his fans. Nor does his selection of motley running mates: he has a former ambassador to Washington and a Likud renegade, but also a former model, a singer, a TV anchor and fellow Russian-speaking émigr...
...course, the government hopes the aggregator bank model it is proposing, with private investors actually making the purchases, gets around the difficult job of having the government figuring out just what these bonds are worth. But it is not clear it will. Even if private investors name the prices, the government will still have to certify the values are reasonable before providing insurance or some other type of incentive to get the purchases complete, if it cares about not throwing more taxpayer money down the rat hole...
...Mendillo—a 15-year veteran of HMC and the former manager of Wellesley College’s endowment—wrote that Harvard had no plans to change the current allocations, which had been in place before her tenure began in July. “The business model at HMC—the internal platform combined with a selectively chosen external set—is the right one for our future,” she wrote. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...