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...Alandar, 52, is one of those fans. A season-ticket holder for four years, the X-ray-machine salesman from Peoria, Ariz., says he and his girlfriend used to bring mist sprayers and portable fans to keep cool as they grilled on the bleachers at Sun Devil Stadium. "The first four or five games used to be a test of your endurance," he says. Now the couple enjoys $100 cushioned club seats in the soaring, air-conditioned arena...
...more, the air-conditioned arena, which lets in natural light through its retractable roof made of woven polyester reinforced with Teflon, also restores a home-field advantage lost to the desert heat. Because of the climate, the Cardinals haven't had a home opener in the open-air Sun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University in Tempe since they moved from St. Louis in 1988. And when they played at home, the 73,000-seat stadium was often half empty. Now, with the eight home games sold out for 2006, "all that positive energy gives our guys a boost," says...
...problem the Cardinals have not been able to shake is the ongoing criticism of Bill Bidwill's management style. The notoriously aloof, bow-tied Mr. B has been criticized for everything from the exorbitant premiums he charged for the sizzling-hot metal bleacher seats at Sun Devil Stadium, when the team moved to Arizona in 1988, to poor choices in coaches, free agents and draft picks. "I think he's been very misunderstood because he hasn't felt comfortable speaking up," says Michael, who describes his father as a nice...
Khatami’s appearance at Harvard has also been the subject of critical editorials in the Boston Herald and the New York Sun over the past week. The newspapers have likened the former Iranian president’s views to those outlined in the contentious “Israel Lobby” paper co-written by Belfer Professor of International Affairs Stephen M. Walt...
...communicates to any of the many galleries that have sight lines leading to it. And what light. He has positioned the atrium's windows so that it cascades in sheets or cuts oblique shafts through the air that mimic the diagonals of the walls and stairways, as though the sun itself had been recruited into his angular scheme. Architects are not known as humble souls, especially in this era of global stars. Yet what can you do but smile when one of them demonstrates that even the elements can be bent, literally, to his will...