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Sure, times are tough for Republican incumbents all over the country, but you wouldn't want to be running Scott Garrett's congressional reelection campaign. Sure, he holds a seat in New Jersey's solidly Republican 5th district that has been GOP property for decades, and there are almost twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats in the affluent district. But who'd want to run for the party of an epically unpopular president when the opponent is a blind rabbi...
...allowed consumers to order tickets from home. A decade later, the websites Fandango and MovieTickets were both established, opening Internet pre-sale options to a wide swath of Americans and largely eliminating the need to show up early at theaters, unless you were insistent on a prime seat. Between the two sites - which have begun to sell advance tickets 30 to 45 days in advance for big Hollywood blockbusters - nearly 4,000 midnight showings of The Dark Knight were scheduled. Thousands of weekend screenings have been sold out for days. "The midnight shows, especially, have really taken...
...create another professorship. When Asani was offered tenure at the University of Bonn in Germany that year, Harvard fought to keep him, Eck said, by making him a professor of the practice in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Study of Religion. The seat is a senior position with five-year contracts...
...Obama campaign's recent decision to hold his convention speech in a separate football stadium, the 76,000-seat Invesco Field at Mile High, has created a new set of questions about protests on the final night in Denver. Convention organizers have not yet announced the procedures for ticketing the public for the event, though they say they hope to open the doors to at least some members of the public. "We do want to give some sort of preference to the local folks," said Natalie Wyeth, a spokeswoman for the Democratic convention. "We're working through those details...
Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light may take a seat on the board of Citigroup, the venerable-but-troubled Wall Street bank that has taken over $40 billion in write-downs over the past year...