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...person U.S. embassy. Officials believe delaying the transition would only further enrage Iraqis, including, critically, the country's most revered Shi'ite leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, whose support the U.S. needs more than ever as it tries to rein in the upstart al-Sadr. "June 30 is a good date," says Rend al-Rahim Francke, Iraq's diplomatic representative to the U.S. "It is long overdue...
...into this charade? That the ensemble cast performs every bit as well as its marquee actors. Nicole Kidman shows us why she should only act in art films; Chloë Sevigny, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Clarkson, and Ben Gazzara all live up to their names; and Paul Bettany, an upstart compared to his castmates, shockingly manages to upstage the veterans with a performance that should make his career...
...limited support among Iraqis. Far more important than the Coalition military effort eliminate the Mahdi militia will be the stance adopted by Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Even if Moqtada himself may not accept Sistani's appeals for restraint, the supreme spiritual leader is nonetheless far more influential than the young upstart. Sistani has called for calm on all sides but has criticized the Coalition's handling of Moqtada's challenge. The IGC has once again been reduced to the supplicant role, sending a delegation on Wednesday to implore Sistani to intervene. But the Grand Ayatollah has problems of his own with...
...measures, the $10 billion secondary market for live events is a model of inefficiency. "There's a great deal of time and energy wasted," says Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who has studied ticket prices. But an upstart business, StubHub.com which was launched near the end of the Internet boom, may yet succeed in changing this landscape. The site is a NASDAQ for tickets, and unlike eBay, StubHub guarantees the transaction and thus a seat. Its home page directs you to concerts, sports or theater events, and after its program crunches the credit-card numbers and finalizes a trade...
While the big gun has signed up more teams than StubHub has, the upstart sells more tickets because anyone, not just Ticketmaster clients' season-ticket holders, can use the site. But don't expect StubHub to return serve and make a play in the primary market. "We've got a huge stand-alone opportunity," says Baker, who runs the company with colleague Jeff Fluhr, a Stanford Business School classmate. His immediate goals include signing more teams and finalizing a Web advertising deal with a major online distributor. "Sure, you can call us Ivy League scalpers," says Baker. "But this...