TICKET touts were charging up to £120 for the chance to see the Dalai Lama give his only public talk in Edinburgh yesterday.Corrected version:Eager to cash in on the last day of a six-day Scottish visit by the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, ticket prices, originally £15, soared as crowds turned up outside the Usher Hall for the world peace flag ceremony and concert.
Heroic entrepreneurs enable keen Buddhists to see their leader despite market misjudgement by managers of government-owned concert hall
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Neil (195.93.32.7)
Hardly "heroic" - "clever", "wise", "smarter than the average bureaucrat", "risk taking" certainly.
8 June 2004, 20:58:38 GMT+01:00
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