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...audience—many of whom had camped out last weekend to snag a ticket to the speech—rose as a group of Tibetan monks, Harvard administrators and security officers filed in around the Dalai Lama, who grinned at the crowd and chatted to a group of Tibetan musicians in their native language...
People still go to concerts, and Ticketmaster's revenues are up. But to fight scalpers, the ticket service plans to bust its price cap and auction its best seats online. LOOK OUT, EBAY
...Australia forcibly imprisons all its refugees in isolated, desert camps until they gain permission to remain or a ticket to another country?processes that can take years. It's the only nation in the world to do so. Refugees, without committing an offence, are the sole group in Australia who can be imprisoned indefinitely by order of Parliament?and no courts may order their release. These policies, widely condemned by the international community, are the target of From Nothing to Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came...
...multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges as much as three times more for a ticket than the old cinemas did, Baijal sees the young set "coming back all the time. They are getting more exposure. They know what they want...
...Hyperbolic promotions to lure back tourists are de rigueur in Asia these days?from Malaysian shopping carnivals to Hong Kong air ticket giveaways. And the Koh Samui Carnival is an example of the kind of latter-day tourism twaddle that should never have made it past a boardroom brainstorm...