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...sale of around 3,500 $10 tickets to tailgaters who were not current Harvard or Yale undergraduates offset the rest of the expenses...
...Offset the Pain. Benefit cuts will probably be necessary to keep Social Security solvent as the number of retirees grows. The appeal of private accounts might persuade voters to accept the trade...
...Wide Awake, which is mostly acoustic songs sung in Oberst's quivering man-child breaths. On his previous albums, Oberst reached impatiently for any instrument lying around the studio (one track opened with him asking, "Can I get a goddamn timpani roll?"). Here he picks his sounds carefully to offset the intensity of his voice and material. On the rousing opener, At the Bottom of Everything, a mandolin clips jauntily away while he crows, "We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole/ We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul." These are smart...
...race to deliver supplies to areas now inaccessible by land. But there's a strategic aim too: from the Commander in Chief to the service members on the ground, Americans are hopeful that the scenes of sailors distributing water and food from the backs of helicopters will offset the more familiar images of soldiers breaking down doors in Baghdad. Most of all, the military wants to soften hearts and minds in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the tsunami and the world's largest Muslim nation. "This is a great opportunity to show everyone that the military isn't only...
...networks to carry data-intensive video. In the past few years, however, pay TV has become more alluring. According to Media Partners Asia, the industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than 14% this year to $15.5 billion. That's new business phone companies desperately need to offset declines in local and long-distance call revenues, which are under attack from competitors such as Internet-based telephony providers. Some of the fiercest rivals in this new field are cable firms like I Cable, which last week began offering a broadband-and-telephony package for a ridiculously cheap...