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...with this new generation - remarks that were clearly thought up long before they walked into the room, which is filled with plenty of gray hairs and laugh lines. Richardson ventures into an odd sidebar about how former Dallas star Victoria Principal was the first person to purchase a ticket for New Mexico?s private space port; he asks if people get the ?Dallas? reference, saying, ?I?m not that old.? A blogger harrumphs: ?We?re not that young...
...Harvard.Perhaps the year’s greatest success sprung from the year’s greatest failure, Wyclef. The Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a semi-autonomous wing of the UC, had planned to bring Wyclef Jean to perform on campus during the first week of November, but sluggish ticket sales compelled the HCC to cancel the show less than a week before it was scheduled. By backing out, the UC lost $30,000 in fees, but it would likely have lost three times that had it not cancelled.After this year’s debacle and last spring?...
...particular, their hearts. The cholesterol in steaks, cream, butter and especially those breakfast eggs was clogging arteries like sludge in a stopped-up drainpipe. Salt was poison: it drove up blood pressure and put an unhealthy strain on the ticker. Overeating and becoming overweight were a sure ticket to a coronary...
...fall’s major campus concert. “We are confident that the HCC has it right this year,” we exclaimed at the time. “Wyclef will certainly stir significant interest.” Ultimately, however, the concert was an unmitigated failure. Ticket sales were so abysmal that the whole affair was called off less than a week beforehand, costing the UC more than $25,000 in lost deposits. A vaguely introspective campaign of self-flagellation followed, but a few weeks’ worth of audits and investigations produced little immediate change.The Council...
...line.And whether we were in season or not, there was always room on the couch—I’ll never forget leaping into his arms when Scott Norwood pushed his game-winning field goal wide—or, better still, at the stadium. Yankees tickets were relatively easy to come by, and we’d often head into the Bronx, gloves in tow, before it was decided by my younger brother and sister that I was the reason the Pinstripes lost every time we saw them play live. Fortunately for me, Dad had been a Giants season...