Word: ticket
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...Where's the Veep? Re "How To Pick A Veep": try to think outside the Beltway [June 23]. I am a 57-year-old black female. We Democrats must have a white male on the ticket with Barack Obama to guarantee a win in November because this is a white man's world. I say this with no animosity. The Veep must also be smart, handsome, Southern, military and reasonably conservative. We're on a roll. Marlene B. Feltus-Jackson, New Orleans...
...spent $128 million at the box office in WALL-E's first 10 days of release, placing the film seventh so far in 2008, and it is likely to climb closer to the heroes of May - Indiana Jones and Iron Man - as glowing word-of-mouth continues to drive ticket sales. Even though most of Hollywood's Oscar contenders have yet to hit theaters, all that critical and commercial affection is leading awards watchers to ponder: Could WALL-E finally...
...after such a contest, statistics don't seem to capture what it was like to actually be there, in that near-hysterical crowd, scribbling in a notebook I know I will one day pass on to my son or daughter, with a ticket, to prove that "I was there." So let me share with you the notes that had nothing to do with tactics or score, but rather attempted to capture the seemingly mundane moments in the four-hour and 48 minutes of play that will stay with me long after I forget how Federer won the crucial match point...
...opening three matches forgot its trick bag in the knockout round against an equally fleet-of-foot Russia. It was a terrible thing to do to the Oranje supporters, still Europe's best. But they had a good time anyway, even the thousands who invaded Switzerland without a ticket. Following on the tradition established at the World Cup in Germany, the packed Fan Zones in the host cities - Zurich boasted of a million Fan Zone visits - showed that the tournament had now outgrown mere stadiums. And although there were some incidents, the massed fans focused on the football...
...each way for a single checked bag, part of what airlines have dubbed "a la carte" pricing, which - along with the industrywide drive to put price tags on former freebies like soft drinks, meals and headphones - some airline observers say is really an effort to avoid increasing base ticket prices...