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...puppets) wasn't enough to fill its 1,200-seat venue, which is 1 1/2 times the size of Avenue Q's Broadway home. Casinos expect shows to draw people into their hotel rooms, gaming, restaurants and nightclubs, so they want to see packed houses. Avenue Q turned a profit but couldn't fill the house, averaging 50% capacity. Wynn says Spamalot has a better chance of selling out the $40 million palace he built for Avenue Q. To draw those crowds, even a Broadway hit like Hairspray has to make compromises: an abridged, intermission-free version opened last month...
...much as $1 billion worth of development such as hotels and shops, perhaps performance spaces or a planetarium. "This is a giant step in a city that understands what its core business is-food, music, the riverfront, culture, architecture," says Cummings. A riverfront park, long championed by the non-profit Trust for Public Land, is expected to take shape over the next five years, attracting new condo and housing development. "The riverfront is the cornerstone to the renaissance of our city," says Larry Schmidt, who runs the New Orleans office of the Trust, which seeks to conserve land for parks...
...Harvard, should have the premiere high school in the country, and Harvard should be part of the effort to make it outstanding. In addition to extending the Harvard community into the Cambridge community, Reeves believes Harvard should pay taxes, and argues that the University is not a non-profit...
...reflection and renewal.We know the expanse of the review’s possibilities because great strides have already been taken toward certain reforms: this week marks the arrival of the first Associate Dean of Harvard College for Advising Programs, and already this year hundreds of students are beginning to profit from a new interdisciplinary program in the life sciences. These steps can be transformed into galloping leaps in the very near future, and all that is required of us is our passion and will.Along the way, distractions may make it difficult to maintain focus on the review. Nonetheless, changes...
...investment firm such as HMC might buy energy futures so that it can make a profit if the cost of oil rises above the contract’s pre-set price. By contrast, the rest of the University has no choice but to buy oil. Its incentive for entering the futures market is to shield itself from a budget crunch in the event that energy prices soar...