The $10 million conversion of a former hockey arena and field house into a performing arts center — with a theater, classrooms, costume and design shops, and other multipurpose spaces — has added significant bank debt on top of the company's mortgage, Ms. Packer and Mr. Simotes said.
The verdict, which came after only two hours of deliberation, ended a civil trial over a minor altercation that has fascinated Texas, pitting the word of a flight attendant against that of two stars in populist religion, Joel and Victoria Osteen, who run the giant Lakewood Church in a former basketball arena here.
Let's suppose that either of two acts of persuasion has occurred in that arena: a former moral absolutist is now a relativist of some kind, or a former relativist is now a confirmed believer in moral absolutes.
The event was inaugurated by a large dinner in "The Arena", a former riding school on the army base, which often concluded with the playing of bagpipes (Judd was proud of his Scottish ancestry).
Across Main Street from Shea's, for instance, is a newly designed arena theater in a former store.
"IT'S Europe's moment in the Arab-Israeli arena," says Martin Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel and head of the Saban Centre, a Washington DC think-tank.
It is a rare university that has the basketball arena named after a former school president and a wing of the library named after the football coach.
"I'm always happy when people get into the arena," said Mary Matalin, a former senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, calling it "courageous to jump in like that".
She had been a waitress in Edmonton, Alberta, and he was a former beer concessionaire at the hockey arena in Montreal, but their common work ethic did not make for an instant match.
(Foxcroft, a former referee who is now an arena observer for the N.B.A., also supervises the officials for the basketball league that includes his and Balsillie's sons and in which Balsillie coaches).
