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These new football palaces have made the games a much more pleasant customer experience. And they gush money. The Patriots' Gillette Stadium opened in 2002 at a cost of $350 million. None of it was publicly financed, and about half was initially financed by the NFL. The new stadium has 87 luxury suites, which sell for $100,000 to $300,000 annually; its 6,000 clubhouse seats go for $5,000 each. Throw in the stadium signage and naming rights, and the Patriots go from 28th in the league in stadium revenues to near the top. The Green Bay Packers...
...occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George W. Bush had announced his selection, that a nanny he had once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that he had not paid some taxes on her salary...
...would not be enough in the post-Lord of the Rings cinematic landscape. But the scenery is discovered by the characters and audience simultaneously. Their wonder at the astonishing scenery contrasts adroitly with the surrounding ugliness of petty human motivations, achieving a poetic effect far beyond mere appreciation of pleasant backgrounds...
...Olaf, whose appearances in all his disguises are equally hilarious. Meryl Streep lives up to her legendary reputation in the role of the neurotic Aunt Josephine; she is as bemusing in her phobias as she is touching in her delusions. Jude Law, the voice of Lemony Snicket, provides a pleasant balance between soothing narrator tones and tongue-in-cheek sarcasm. The three Baudelaire children are compelling too, but—perhaps unsurprisingly, considering their dazzling co-stars—they are the least notable of the performers. Occasionally, their acting seems forced, perhaps due to a combination of inexperience...
...electronic synth beats, but she loses the thing that got No Doubt its fans and made Stefani famous: her innocent-yet-knowing sexiness and clever lyrics. It’s a sellout as disappointing as Jewel’s or Liz Phair’s, and far less pleasant...