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...tickets. Last year, a ticket for a Boston Red Sox American League Championship Series game sold for an average of $448 on StubHub.com, the leading secondary-market ticket site. This year, that average price dipped like the Dow: it was $244, a decline of about 50%. In the Tampa area, World Series tickets are going for under $200, the lowest price StubHub has seen in the five years it has tracked the secondary market. Several teams have already taken measures to draw fans in a struggling economy. The Kansas City Royals offered gas-card promotions when prices soared this summer...
...this activity has made the City--the square mile around St. Paul's Cathedral that is the heart of the old financial district, plus the gleaming towers of the new financial district in the docklands area--a powerful motor not just for London but also for British prosperity. In 2007 financial services accounted for 10.1% of the U.K.'s gross domestic product, up from 5.5% in 2001. Add in professional services linked to finance, such as accounting, law and management consulting, and the total rises to 14%. And that's for Britain as a whole. For London, finance has been...
...finance has reshaped the British capital, take a trip to Greenwich--about 3 1/2 miles (6 km) downstream from Tower Bridge--home to the Royal Observatory, which dates back to 1675. It's the birthplace of Greenwich Mean Time, but for years the area was as well known for its mean streets: 19 Greenwich neighborhoods rank among the most deprived in England...
Pulitzer’s donation is an extremely generous contribution to Harvard’s ability to enhance artistic teaching and research opportunities at the University; it also brings more world-class art into the Cambridge area for everyone nearby to enjoy. We are sure the museum will find a way to use this gift in a way that does it justice...
Harvard’s planners also emphasized the important role that new retail will play in livening up the area, prompting some residents to ask for more specifics and others to offer suggestions...