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...scoresheet reflected the strong team play by Harvard, as scoring was distributed among several players. Atkinson, Livingston, and freshman Bret Voith all scored three goals, and co-captain Michael Byrd added two. Sophomore Dan Furman added a key goal at the end of the first quarter to stake the Crimson to a commanding 5-2 lead. Harvard never looked back en route to victory. “It was a solid team effort all the way around,” Farrar said. HARVARD 10, FORDHAM 5 The Crimson topped the Rams in the first game of the day, outplaying Fordham...
...ticketing giant of about 20% of its sales. Instead, Live Nation is pumping up its own in-house ticket distribution arm, already the third largest in the world, which gives it a direct link to the music fans attending its shows. Not to be outdone, Ticketmaster significantly increased its stake in Front Line Management, an agency that represents such acts as Christina Aguilera, Jimmy Buffett and Aerosmith, when rumors swirled that Live Nation wouldn't renew its contract. Warner, for its part, has been looking around for partners, potentially hooking up with none other than IAC/ InterActive Corp, Ticketmaster...
...other pioneers are already there. Orascom, an Egyptian conglomerate, recently signed a $115 million deal to buy a stake in a North Korean cement company. And later this month, a British firm will begin offering subscriptions for the first ever D.P.R.K.-focused investment fund. Colin McAskill, director of the Chosun Development & Investment Fund, says it will concentrate on the mining industry. "You have to think off the wall in North Korea, because nothing conventional has ever worked there," he says...
...most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world. If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace. No side can unilaterally win a conflict between more than half of the world's inhabitants. Thus our common future is at stake. The very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake...
...least part of the time. The volunteers sign three-month contracts, wear only special armbands instead of uniforms and use their own weapons, but they get paid three-quarters of what Iraqi police recruits receive and are given preference for joining the police and army. "It gives them a stake in the system. It's really the first step to becoming IP [Iraqi Police] or IA [Iraqi Army]," Balcavage said. In the absence of good alternatives, he said he was willing to give it a chance. "I guess it's making the best of a bad situation," he said...