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...circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet 2 (picked up at Sundance in January for a reported $10 million), there are hundreds of films floundering and forgotten on the fringe...
...workers; PepsiCo, which reported falling sales in the U.S., is chopping 3,300 jobs worldwide. Demand for Samsung's DRAM chips is dropping. The retailer Linens'n Things is closing its remaining 371 stores, eliminating 17,000 jobs. The NBA is laying off 80 people, citing slower ticket sales...
...Selling tickets, says Pitches president Annie E. P. Stone ’10, is difficult, especially in the spring when the novelty has started to wear off even for new freshmen. “Everyone on campus knows someone in an a cappella group and they’re always being pestered to buy a ticket,” she explains...
...just Obama's historic candidacy that's eroding the Republicans' small black constituency. Many black pastors who supported Bush cannot credibly suggest that their congregations support the Republican ticket, not after the Bush Administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis that particularly threatens an already fragile black middle class. For many blacks, there is little evidence that McCain, who still has the stigma of initially opposing a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his home state of Arizona two decades ago, has a desire to cultivate the kind of relationships with black Republicans that Ronald Reagan...
...Early last month, in response to increased attention garnered by member Sarah Palin’s nomination to the Republican presidential ticket, FFL issued the following statement: “…[W]e are not anti-choice. We are pro-life…” FFL’s positions against not only abortion, but contraception as well. restrict pregnant women’s choices to one: the choice of having a baby. Although FFL wants to pander to both sides of the debate, its absolutist pro-fetus stance makes the choice for women, rather than allowing...