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...Earlier this year, Macau's government had already started to hit the brakes. In April, Macau's Chief Executive Edmund Ho announced that no new gambling licenses would be issued to additional operators, and that current concession-holders would not be able to apply for additional gaming tables or slot machines. That set a limit on future building, but Beijing was also concerned about the volume of mainland tourists frittering away their money at the tables in Macau - the only place on Chinese soil where gambling is legal. Each day, crowds of hopeful punters cross into Macau from Zhuhai...
...April of this year, however, things soured when Taylor caught Barmy getting intimate with another avatar, named Modesty McDonnell. "I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate," she said. "I ended up going off to his mum and dad's in floods of tears...
...based on an examination of peer institutions’ arts programs, student input, and previous arts initiatives at Harvard.“We’ve been looking closely at how the arts play a role at other institutions, such as Yale and Princeton,” he says.Last April, several members of the Task Force took a field trip to Yale, touring the university’s artistic spaces and meeting with various deans, according to the Yale Daily News.Greenblatt, a Yale alum, was reportedly impressed with his visit. “Yale has for a long time...
...disaster Californians remember most vividly, even though most weren't even born yet, was the earthquake that struck San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906. The first shockwave registered 8.3 on the Richter scale and shook the city for a full 45 seconds. Many buildings, including San Francisco's city hall, collapsed almost immediately. Seventeen aftershocks came within an hour and fires raged for three days afterward, destroying 500 city blocks. In photos, 1906 San Francisco resembles a war zone; buildings are left half-standing, the streets are littered with debris, barely anything is recognizable. With...
...attacks - they have been blamed on Islamist fundamentalists aided by "foreign elements," meaning mostly Pakistan and China. Even where the majority of victims have been Muslims - such as the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the attack on an Indo-Pak train in February 2007 and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhi's Jama Masjid - the first murmurs of suspicion have named Islamist groups. Investigation trails in these cases have led nowhere, yet no one has dared ask if non-Muslims, or more specifically, Hindu fundamentalists, could be responsible. The recent arrests point to either...