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...pair of Arizona State University staffers, with some business partners, started Ticketmaster in 1976, which sold its first tickets the following year for an event at the University of New Mexico. In 1981, the company opened its first overseas operations and in 1982, a new CEO named Fred Rosen took over the company. Rosen, who told the Los Angeles Times in 1985 that his competitors were "asleep at the switch," was an aggressive businessman and proud of it. He was so good at dominating the ticket industry (and consequently became practically the only game in town) that Pearl Jam rebelled...
...determine just how easily an all-hat-no-cattle leader can take control of employees, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, devised a pair of tests. Cameron Anderson, an associate professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations, along with doctoral candidate Gavin Kilduff, recruited a group of 68 graduate students and divided them into four-person teams. To eliminate the wild card of gender, the teams were either all-male or all-female. Each group was given the task of organizing an imaginary nonprofit environmental organization; the group that did best - as determined by the researchers - would...
...Crimson senior Evan Harris was effective with eight points in his first game back from a knee injury, but Harvard’s pair of freshman forwards found little success on the offensive end. Forced to defend taller and heavier players, Peter Boehm showed spirit but had a cold shooting night, making only one triple in seven attempts. Despite pulling in a game-high seven rebounds, Keith Wright scored four points and did not make it to the free throw line in a game filled with 48 fouls. Yale had 40 points in the paint to the host?...
...locker room aggressively, taking a 4-2 lead off a Berry jumper only two and a half minutes into the game. Yale was relentless as it went on an 8-0 run to take a 10-4 lead two minutes later. A jumper from Tay, followed by a pair of Berry free throws, brought the score to 10-8. The Bulldogs created an eight-point margin, with 10 minutes remaining. The Crimson tallied six straight points to cut the lead to 24-22. Yale quickly responded with a 10-2 run in a minute and a half to make...
Classic Dinner Theater. Admit it, you eat dinner in front of the TV. So, why not do it en masse in front of a big screen? Nine Thirty, the restaurant at the Los Angeles-Westwood W hotel, will pair film screenings with a three-course dinner and wine every Sunday, from Feb. 15 through May 17. Dinner will be served al fresco on the hotel's patio, along with showings of An Affair to Remember (Feb. 15), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Feb. 22) and the Irish love story Once (March 1). The meal begins at 6 p.m., and showtime...