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...commissioner Roger Goodell recently sent a memo to teams, warning them that league revenues would be "under pressure." He asked them to control costs and seek new revenue streams. This season, baseball attendance fell about 1%, the first drop in four years, and that demand is reflected in the market for playoff tickets. Last year, a ticket for a Boston Red Sox American League Championship Series game sold for an average of $448 on StubHub.com, the leading secondary-market ticket site. This year, that average price dipped like the Dow: it was $244, a decline of about...
...former Cabinet minister in the royalist government, later suggested a model for Dr. Siri. "They were more than cynical," Cotterill says of the émigrés. "They were really angry to be forced to leave what was then a good life. They'd saved money, had careers and sent their children to good schools. Then the communists moved in and suddenly this lifestyle was taken from them...
...part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which audience members are put through simulated training and deployment to Iraq, taught how to search for insurgents and then sent back home to go through rehab at Walter Reed. Turn off your cell phones, please, and return the M-4 rifles on your...
...rankings twist highly subjective and qualitative data into quantitative terms, with enormously flawed results. For example, surveys sent to college officials asking for ratings of other college and university reputations—disingenuously called “peer assessment” by U.S. News—counts for 25 percent of the overall ranking. Not only do many of these officials know little about their peer institutions, but they also have an adverse incentive to downgrade their competitors...
Less than two minutes into the second frame, BC managed to cushion its lead. Eagles forward Kate Gillis had the ball outside of the circle and sent a through ball to teammate Kathleen Murphy. Uncontested, Murphy sprinted to her left and backhanded a shot between Stone’s legs for an insurance goal. Harvard’s offense picked up late in the second half when it began pressing BC’s defense. With roughly 14 minutes remaining, McCoy sprinted past her defender and had an open look on net, but she lost control of the ball...