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...Selling more obscure sports cleverly can work. Demand for many of the 9 million tickets that London organizers plan to sell will be fierce. For some events, though - think handball - organizers know they may have to coax fans along. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. Few Britons had ever heard of ski cross before the Vancouver Games, but the event, which pits four skiers simultaneously against one another over an undulating course, drew millions of television viewers. London organizers have been busy drawing up marketing plans to help push the lower-profile events. Vancouver may have...
...over the governing Labour Party had diminished to just two percentage points, raising the specter of no party winning absolute control of Parliament. The problem: Britain has had little practice at coalition government in recent years. Its last attempt - more than 30 years ago - has done nothing to help sell the idea now. A hung Parliament could see a second election called in a matter of months. And all the while, Britain's $268 billion deficit goes unchecked. (Read: "David Cameron: UK's Next Leader...
...tour guide, I try to keep the Hogwarts references to a minimum. But from time to time, I, too, slip in one too many Harry Potter references, and I’ve heard many of my fellow guides do the same. Are we trying to sell a Hogwarts resemblance when we should be selling the Harvard reality? I don’t believe so. I suspect that we are so oft inclined to make these Hogwarts analogies while trying to convey some graspable idea of the Harvard experience; the Harry Potter imagery...
Lloyd still acknowledges the lure of the racing bike. And he says that if he sells 60 of the bikes in a month, he knows that 10 to 15 of those will be involved in a crash, with the owners coming in to his business for repairs - or worse, with new widows or other bereaved family members wanting to sell the ill-fated bikes for parts. "You're buying that bike for that reason - somebody's not coming in and buying a sports bike to go putt around town," he says. But if the bikers won't rein themselves...