Because Syracuse and Seton Hall are charter Big East members, and because Syracuse is leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference next year, it made sense to Seton Hall officials to try to meet a higher ticket demand.

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The big winner in the Charter Communications turnaround: Leon Black and Apollo Global Management.

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The record of charter schools in the Big Apple has been impressive.

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He was only 15 when, the night after Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that 1959 Iowa charter-plane crash, he was recruited to somehow help make the show go on at the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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In an age when most investors are happy with base hits, he still hits home runs, making big money for his backers at companies like Charter Communications and AAT Communications.

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Governor George Pataki got the charter schools bill through the New York legislature by tying it to a big pay increase that state lawmakers badly wanted.

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For big insurers, frustrated at having to be regulated state by state, the wait for an optional federal charter goes on.

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