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...happy to be here, but it's still a little sad, when you take into consideration what happened here during Katrina," said Jackie Williams, a New Orleans native in a Saints black-and-gold jersey who has been a season ticket subscriber since 1979. Williams and her cousin, Vickie Anderson, were here for the last Saints game to be played in the dome, on August 26, 2005, just three days before the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast; now they were waiting in a long line outside the stadium and wondering how many of the other season ticket subscribers they...
...except kids and their parents. In fact, as high schools settle into the routine of a new school year, poker is resuming its place as one of the most popular and socially accepted activities in teenagers' lives. Cable TV draws young viewers for popular celebrity-poker shows and big-ticket poker tournaments (more than a million people tuned in for each ESPN telecast of the 2006 World Series of Poker). Schools throughout the country offer casino nights, using play money or raffles, as a way to keep kids from going to unsupervised parties, with their attendant risks of alcohol...
...this show." And they help reel in the other 90%, which is where gratifying the superfans pays off. "Let's say I go to a Bruce Springsteen show, and he plays for four hours instead of two hours," says Lindelof. "Why? What is he getting out of it? Your ticket price is exactly the same. But what happens is, you go to work the next morning, and you say, I just saw the greatest f______ show in my life...
Some people say that if your husband had been at the top of the ticket in 2004, he could have beaten George W. Bush...
...Sirleaf said. “We won because we offered a vision that excited the imaginations of our people and allowed them to hope again.” Sirleaf’s speech filled every seat in the forum, and only winners of an online lottery could obtain tickets. Kavita Sridhar, a second-year Kennedy School student and one of the lucky ticket-holders last night, said afterwards, “It’s amazing to see, as an alumna, how far you can go.” —Staff writer Ariadne C. Medler can be reached...