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...gave the Concert Commission $30,000 to bring Dylan and we’ll make that back with revenue, ticket sales, and corporate sponsorship,” said UC President Matthew W. Mahan ’05. “But there’s no way we would have been able to allocate so much more money than in the past without the termbill increase...
...only getting older. But now the United States has a war on terror to fight and an international reputation to recover. In a world Americans now know is hostile and dangerous, and in a country sliding into economic and ideological polarization, there is only one man on the ticket we trust to make sensible decisions in the face of uncertainty: John F. Kerry...
...Bush-Cheney re-election campaign last year. A shrewd problem solver, she is considered one of his closest political advisers. Still, some conservatives were furious that Kerry went out of his way to mention Mary's lesbianism because they saw it as a way to embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Lynne Cheney called it "a cheap and tawdry political trick...
...those shows don't depend on the star like we do. Nobody knows who's playing the Phantom in New York, but potential audiences care who's playing Max." Case in point: the day the London theater announced that Lane was replacing Dreyfuss, the box office doubled its ticket sales. But after Lane leaves? The Producers' London backers may end up with a surefire hit on their hands for three months - and just a handy tax shelter after that...
...success. So Nike executives set themselves a potentially quixotic challenge: to change China's culture. Recalls Terry Rhoads, then director of sports marketing for Nike in China: "We thought, 'We won't get anything if they don't play sports.'" A Chinese speaker, Rhoads saw basketball as Nike's ticket. He donated equipment to Shanghai's high schools and paid them to open their basketball courts to the public after hours. He put together three-on-three tournaments and founded the city's first high school basketball league, the Nike League, which has spread to 17 cities. At games, Rhoads...