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...served us well for decades, and we think it would be a mistake to alter it." And as much as some local officials may be griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report. The average premium seat now costs $229.17, a 15% increase over the previous year. And local network affiliates aren't necessarily upset that they have to sometimes...
There will be 86 events spanning seven sports around Vancouver and at the Whistler ski area, a two-hour drive north. Despite the economy, ticket demand has not gone downhill. According to U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) spokeswoman Nicole Saunches, "Ticket demand has been high, as you would expect with the Games right across the border. That's been great for Vancouver and the Games in general." See pictures of 100 Olympic Athletes To Watch...
Americans have already received the largest allotment of tickets ever for the U.S. in a nonhosted Winter Games, and they want more. Mark Lewis, president of Jet Set Sports, whose CoSport subsidiary handles ticketing for the USOC, says more than 80,000 individual tickets have been sold so far. The final phase of ticket sales will being in mid-September, and fans who want tickets should go to cosport.com "It's certainly not too late," says Lewis. Nor is it too late to book hotel reservations. "There will be rooms available, and more are opening up," says Walt Judas, vice...
...with a slew of commands about salad plates and fish forks, the no-whites dictum provided old-money élites with a bulwark against the upwardly mobile. But such mores were propagated by aspirants too: those savvy enough to learn all the rules increased their odds of earning a ticket into polite society. "It [was] insiders trying to keep other people out," says Steele, "and outsiders trying to climb in by proving they know the rules." (See the video "Recession Etiquette with Peggy Post...
...nightmare started with silence: one fall morning in 1993, none of the doctors at the Burundian hospital where Deogratias Niyizonkiza worked showed up. War had erupted, forcing the promising medical student to embark on a harrowing flight through the bloodstained hills of Burundi and Rwanda. Armed with a ticket bought by a friend's father, he boarded a plane to New York City--where he arrived with no English, no contacts and just $200 in his pocket. Facing hunger, homelessness and heavy odds, the young refugee--propelled by the kindness of strangers--rose from the streets to Columbia University...