More than a million people protested in scores of cities across the country on Thursday night to excoriate the government on a broad array of issues, including political corruption, the high cost of living and the billions of dollars being devoted to building stadiums for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in a country where poverty is pervasive and public education is often in shambles.
Guests, mostly local residents, are invited to shop, dance and stroll through a large stadium, near the town center, entirely devoted to "la culture country": 200 stands selling western regalia — everything from Stetson hats to leather-ornamented clothes said to be Sioux.
Liverpool also plays in an aging but historic stadium, Anfield, and its fans are as devoted to their team as fans in New England are to the Red Sox.
The Yankees' new home will have 56 private suites, up from 19 in the old stadium, and nearly twice as much space devoted to team stores.
Neil deMause, who maintains FieldofSchemes.com, a Web site devoted to studying myths about stadium-financing ploys, takes what he calls the "extremely skeptical" view.
Thank you for all the coverage your music critics Martin Bernheimer and Robert Hilburn have devoted to the Three Tenors since the Dodger Stadium concert last July.
But 20 minutes devoted to the (nick)namesake of the soon-to-be-razed stadium is appropriate and overdue.
Was he as devoted to the Yankees as your late mother, a regular presence at the stadium?
Yes, there's an account devoted to the annoyingly monotone musical instrument that's all the rage right now in soccer stadiums across South Africa.
Can we say with confidence that a thousand of those hours should be devoted to an obscure art form whose entire national audience could be seated in a typical college football stadium with room to spare?
