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...Attorney James Comey says the three frat brothers exploited a gap in horse racing's data network that allowed them to change their wagers after races had already been run. Harn allegedly used his job as a senior programmer at Autotote, which processes wagering for many U.S. tracks, to alter Ultra Pick 6 bets that Davis phoned in to the Catskill OTB (off-track betting) site in Pomona, N.Y. In what investigators believe was a kind of dry run for the Breeders' Cup, DaSilva placed similar bets in the weeks before, collecting more than $100,000. The three say they...
...game's genius lies in exactly what should have made it a flop: its mundanity. Instead of transporting players to another place and time, it offers them familiar, everyday situations. The object of the game, to the extent that it has one, is to keep your Sims--your digital alter egos--well fed, solvent, healthy, entertained and, in short, happy. The game never formally ends: you can keep on living your simulated life as long as you like...
Some might have expected a more polemical outing from Pearl Jam given the current political climate. The intention of Riot Act is more understated. Vedder, who has created so many empathetic alter-egos in songs like “Daughter” and “Jeremy” is finally singing as himself. Less dramatic, the album is also more unified than others and finds Vedder putting his shaky faith in love, realising that there may not be much alternative, “But I try / To run on / Towards / All or none?...
...memories of the West Wingers make for fascinating history. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
...film introduces Soho Eckstein, a Johannesburg businessman physically modeled after Kentridge and ideologically based on his grandfather, seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him. Soho leads his daily life in cleanly boxed rooms that contrast the violence of the outside world. He is accompanied by his alter ego, Felix Teitlebaum, a dreamy character who competes for Soho’s wife...