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...Having a single company control so much of the live music market is almost guaranteed to mean one thing: ungodly ticket prices. In 2007, the cost of two seats to see Phil Collins and a re-united Genesis warble Mama was around $400, while two of the best seats for Jay-Z's current 28-date Live Nation tour with Mary J. Blige go for $500.00. Anti-trust laws prevent Live Nation from selling more than 10% of its own tickets, but at those prices, 10% adds up fast. For consumers, the pain could be acute...
...than it does as a sports epic. In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans. The players are simple jocks, content with playing a game of few, loosely enforced rules. But as attention shifts from locker rooms to board rooms, where the real struggle for control of the game's bright, yet much more respectable, future is waged, Leatherheads loses some of its formerly merry ways. It wants to make the case that there is more fun - maybe more simple humanity - to be found in the formative years of mighty enterprises (the movie business...
...Something is better than nothing.' KYAW HSAN, Burma's Information Minister, on the junta's proposed new constitution, which would establish a civilian government but allows the military to maintain effective control of the country...
...anybody’s game in the beginning of the first half. Neither team scored for the first seven minutes of play. But in the eighth minute BU junior Sarah Dalton quick-sticked a ball past Harvard sophomore goalie Katherine Martino. After that the Terriers took control the offensive game. In the next ten minutes BU scored five unanswered goals. With 12 minutes left Harvard got on the board after an unassisted goal from senior Natalie Curtis. But Harvard could not find momentum and allowed BU to go on another scoring run. Harvard left the half down...
...revenge mission after his eight-year-old adopted son is gunned down. Is he the good guy or the bad guy? Kunzman reckons: "The relationship between criminals and the forces of the law is different. American and British crime fiction is largely about a society that is firmly in control, but which is momentarily imbalanced by an act of murder. In South Africa, that's wishful thinking...