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...bingo across the U.K. and almost half are under 45; 10 years ago, the average age was 55. The electronica band Lemon Jelly opened recent concerts with a bingo game instead of a supporting band. "Bingo is the only female-dominated leisure pursuit," says Richard Sowerby, marketing director for Gala Group, one of Britain's two biggest bingo operators. "We target women in their mid-to-late thirties because they're equally happy to go along with their mothers or sit alongside someone who's 19. It's a secure environment, as opposed to others that are male-dominated like...
...This year our show is even more critical than ever,” says Aaron Tanaka ’04, one of six CityStep directors organizing the group’s 20th Anniversary gala show. The historic event, which celebrates the oldest established service group on campus, coincides with recent budget cuts that have threatened arts-related programs in the Cambridge Public School District. The event, involving 31 teachers, six directors, two executive producers, 15 producers and more than 100 students, shows that there is hearty enthusiasm and support for the arts in and around Cambridge...
...homeruns, Cornell doesn’t have that much. Senior righthander David Sharfstien—an Honorable Mention All-Ivy honoree last season—is expected to anchor a mediocre pitching staff. He should be helped by a pair of junior righties, Chris Schutt and Dan Gala. But probably none of the starters will get much help from what may be the league’s worst lineup. It will be hard for the Big Red to improve on its 6-14 league mark from a season...
...conditioned cinemas or those pricey double-wide refrigerators (many of which chill a nice bottle of Riesling and not much else)? Arianna Huffington, the columnist who helped start the Detroit Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight is burning extra fuel, some of which may be coming from Persian Gulf nations that may have funneled money...
...committed - in principle, if not always in practice - to a strong European Commission. The French have been more keen to preserve national prerogatives, even to the point of sometimes treating the E.U. as a coat of mail to bulk up for national battle. As they approached this week's gala commemoration at Versailles of the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which sealed formal amity between hereditary foes, Chirac and Schröder decided, as Chirac put it, "that Germany and France would each take one step toward the other." The French gave in to the idea that...