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...often full fares, of Thanksgiving and Christmas. But this season, Americans are more reluctant to fly than at any time in recent memory. Would-be flyers are worried not only about security, delays and possible strandings; some also wonder whether the airline they've paid for a Christmas ticket will be in business when it comes time to depart. Here are some of the questions travelers are asking...
Blame baseball's screwy economics. Although all teams share equally in the money ginned by network-television and merchandise sales, the revenue that each team collects locally from TV deals and ticket sales is theirs alone. That means big-market teams like the New York Yankees, which pull in up to 15 times as much local money as the Twins and Expos, can write big checks for the best players when they become available. The Yanks' payroll was $110 million last season, vs. $25 million for the Twins...
...thousand miles from ground zero, Houston Mayor Lee Brown tried to use the attack as a ticket to re-election. "Now is not the time for on-the-job training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown...
Unlike before the recent speech by former Vice President Al Gore ’69—when undergraduate tickets were snapped up for the event in the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government in a matter of hours—ticket distribution for today’s event lasted for more than two days...
...Fred brings [the ticket] outside student group experience,” said Rohit Chopra ’04, chair of the Student Affairs Committee, who is unaffiliated with any of the campaigns...