Word: ticketed
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...argument that students who waited too long to get a ticket created their own problem is moot: The available supply obviously could not meet demand, and even if everyone went on the same day, some students would be left without a ticket. By increasing the number of tickets available for undergraduates, Harvard will make The Game more enjoyable for everyone, including the football players who deserve to have as many fans cheering them on as possible...
...their flimsy rubber rafts: after spending the rest of the night in a police van, they were sent to an overcrowded island detention center for between 15 and 45 days. Once they're released, authorities are likely to hand them a 30-day expulsion order and a free ferry ticket to Athens. But deportations are rare, so almost all will fall into a clandestine existence. Some may stay in Greece, but most will leave to search for work in European countries to the north and west...
Other clashes will turn on personality and style. Conservatives will say McCain's moderate record cost him votes. Moderates will say he ran too far to the right--and erred by picking Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin has vocal defenders who think that she helped the ticket and should run for President herself in 2012. In Congress, some Republicans will want to cooperate with President-elect Barack Obama, heeding the voters' desire for bipartisanship. Others will seek to draw a clear contrast between their ideas...
This summer, discussions to build a stadium on the waterfront of St. Petersburg, Fla., fell apart, a significant defeat for team officials. They had hoped to have a new home for the team that could draw more season ticket holders. The Rays’ current venue, Tropicana Field, is a cavernous dome that lacks much charm...
...Joseph I. Lieberman to follow his political instincts and officially switch parties, thereby sacrificing his powerful political position in the pursuit of transparency regarding his motives and party status. Yesterday, after a year in which the Connecticut senator called the McCain-Palin candidacy the “real ticket for change” and suggested his own party’s candidate did not “put country first,” the Democratic Party failed to make this change for Lieberman by stripping him of his committee chairmanship, an act that would have effectively forced him to caucus...