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...absolute chaos ruled at the event. Charged mainly with keeping canned drinks and bottles out of the stadium, the freshly minted guards at Yokahama stadium?most aged under 20?stood dumbly by as crowds of fans stormed past the checkpoints. And what would the World Cup be without a ticket scandal? Japan's organizing committee decided not to sell to travel agents, no doubt remembering how Japanese fans in France were fleeced by crooked tour operators. But plans to hawk individual tickets online proved disastrous, with potential buyers unable to get onto the website. Other irate fans have complained that...
...Democratic ticket, complete with their wives, will be back at a bookstore near you sometime soon. A beardless Al Gore, with Tipper at his side, regaled booksellers at BEA with jokes about his reduced station in life. The Gores were talking up their two new books, "Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family" (Holt; November 12) and "The Spirit of Family" (Holt; November 12). In January, losing veep candidate Joseph Lieberman and wife Hadassah will share their observations about the 2000 campaign in "An Amazing Journey...
...Your thesis can be your ticket to a research career,” he says, “if you do a good...
...about 17% of the vote, enough to make him a major player in forming a new government. He is widely expected to do much better than that as the martyred head of his electoral party. The question now is how the fractious collection of mostly neophyte politicians on his ticket will handle that bitter victory without him to lead them. The challenge is no less daunting for the established parties, confronted by an inchoate taste for change among an electorate keen to reject the politics of accommodation...
...especially true for those places seldom used for concerts, such as the hockey center—and the football stadium, which has great potential to host a large-scale performance. As a result, HCC would be able to plan concerts earlier, potentially easing administrators’ concerns about ticket sales...