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...tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and become only the sixth player in history to win all four Grand Slam events (the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens). In the GOAT Debate - Greatest of All Time - Federer now has only one rival: Rod Laver, the Australian star who not only won all four Slams, but twice did so in a calendar year (in 1962 and 1969). Laver's total of 11 Grand Slam titles could have been higher had he not been forced out of major events from 1963 to 1968, when Slams were...
...antitrust concerns are twofold. First, there's the so-called horizontal impact, which refers to when a company buys out a rival to eliminate competition. In this case, the merger will stop Live Nation's recently launched ticketing company from cutting in on Ticketmaster's turf. Live Nation dumped its ticketing contract with Ticketmaster in January after signing a 10-year contract to license ticketing software from Europe's CTS Eventim to run its own ticketing business. The move took a toll on Ticketmaster, which saw its profits dive 78% in the first quarter, partly due to the lost Live...
...boats to now qualify for entry while prohibiting club teams from participating.Despite the change, the field remained loaded with contenders. "The strongest field across the board I've seen, at least in the years we've been going to the IRAs," Harvard coach Harry Parker called it.Pacific-10 conference rivals Cal, Stanford, and Washington represented the heavyweight favorites, but defending champion Wisconsin was not to be forgotten either. And of course, the Ancient Eight, led by Harvard and Brown, intended to make its presence felt.The only team to enter all of the regatta’s events, the Crimson?...
...more worldly considerations. Tulkus often inherit considerable wealth and influence, and powerful monks will jockey to place their own candidates. The political needs of their lineage also figure. And sometimes the consensus-based system doesn't yield a clear winner: Tibetan history crackles with bloody battles between rival claimants or their camps. (See pictures of a new Tibet...
...difficult to speak of winners in France's European parliamentary election on Sunday, given that almost 60% of French adults voted with their derrières by staying at home and avoiding the democratic process altogether. But those who did turn up rewarded two unlikely and rival contestants: the ruling party of France's unpopular President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and a union of traditionally marginal environmental parties now challenging the Socialists for leadership of the nation's leftist opposition...