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...iPod. Variants of the Apple device have commanded over 80 percent of the mp3 player market for years, and the line has cachet above and beyond simple numbers: consider, for example, that just about every raffle on campus with a prize of significant value this year has given ticket-holders or survey-takers the opportunity to win an iPod nano. Even my parents own an iPod. The iPod-ification of America might not have caught us completely by surprise—after all, the iPod has, in every incarnation, been better designed than most of its competition...
...Africans keep trying to reach a little slice of Spain - and, they hope, the chance of a better life - on the Moroccan coast. Patrolled by soldiers and surrounded by fences laced with razor wire, the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta have offered would-be immigrants a one-way ticket to mainland Spain; people who got through were typically released in Spain after 40 days, since no repatriation agreements exist with their native countries. While Melilla and Ceuta have attracted African migrants since the mid-1990s, the Spanish Civil Guard estimates that 13,000 people have tried to breach...
...year-old son, but Lane's personal life is famously turbulent. His father was an alcoholic, and his mother suffered from mental illness. He has struggled to find a steady partner. There's a core of insecurity there. Talking about The Odd Couple's record advance ticket sales, Lane can only focus on his fear of the inevitable backlash...
...course, most Harvard students—and most people in the United States, for that matter—don’t ever have to endure this process in the first place. Tickets to Patriots games, like nearly all pro football games in major cities, are impossibly tough to acquire. Many of them remain in the permanently stiff grasp of season ticket-holders from the beginning of the preseason...
Every person who purchases a ticket to a Hanson concert during the tour will receive a complimentary “Best of Hanson: Live and Electric” CD. The collection features a few shocking covers, like U2’s “In a Little While,” amidst the many live recordings of Hanson hits such as, “Mmmbop,” “Where’s the Love,” and “I Will Come...