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Irving Azoff, chief executive of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., doesn't mince words when he talks about the amplified negative press that's surrounded his company's bid to merge with Live Nation Inc. since the deal was announced in February. "It's really good that some of the press and some of the consumer groups out there that have hated the fact that there's been service charges on tickets and have hated Ticketmaster for the last 20 years have been able to spin all you people," he said sarcastically. "But quite honestly it's a line of bull crap...
...biggest Republican congressional event of the year, which is expected to rake in at least $10 million. The Alaska governor was originally invited last spring by Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), to address the dinner. She accepted, or so Sessions thought, and a press release went out. But there was apparently a miscommunication in Palin World between Washington and Alaska advisers, because as it turned out, the 2008 vice presidential nominee had a conflict and said she might not be able to attend. In the meantime, Sessions and his Senate counterpart Senator John Cornyn...
...Britain's Guardian then added the delicious factoid that at one point the only people Hita saw were Buddhist monks and Richard Gere. Last Monday, a statement attributed to Hita appeared on the FPMT website calling the press reports "sensationalized," and insisting "there is no separation between myself and FPMT." Still, his confirmation of his career change in the same posting in fact suggests a major rift...
...mighty LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is a product of a 20-year creative and business cycle that has come crashing down with the recent global financial crisis. Despite his enormous creativity and influence on fashion, Lacroix could never turn a profit. Many of the press reports on the house's failures blamed the designer's underperforming stores in New York City and Las Vegas. But at the heart of the Lacroix saga is an unsuccessful perfume launch that dates back to 1990, and his continuing inability to translate his unique high-end fashion flair into more accessible...
...taken seriously," says FISA president Amit Menghani. On Monday June 1, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told Federal Parliament that he had spoken with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and assured him that Indian students - whose tuition is healthy source of income for Australian universities - are welcome. In a press release, he said a taskforce had been set up which would include senior officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Education and Workplace Relations, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Attorney-Generals' Department to deal with the problem. (Read a short...