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...Avi Brand, Alexandria...
...Purim looks like Halloween meets Mardi Gras with a Jewish back story. The holiday commemorates the failure of the evil Haman’s plot to destroy all the Jews, which provides the perfect excuse to get smashed while sporting ridiculous outfits. Campus Rabbi and Orthodox Rabbinic Advisor Avi Poupko came dressed as the Pope in full regalia, complete with a guitar on his back. Former Jewish band member Raphael S.N. Nemes ’05 and his friend Joseph D. Tarkoff took a less religious approach, dressing up as Borat and Azumat, respectively. Miriam R. Hinman...
...something of objective value: a pair of Diebold AccuVote TS voting machines, acquired through his job in the e-voting industry. Although e-voting- machine makers claimed their products were secure, no independent academic had managed to dissect an actual machine to check the assertion. Kimberlin called Professor Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who had written about vulnerabilities in Diebold's e-voting source code after it was inadvertently left on a public server. "When Brett first contacted me, he seemed surprised that I didn't recognize him," Rubin says. "He said, 'It's Brett with Velvet Revolution...
...more ambitious sequels want their characters to grow. Avi Arad, producer of Spider-Man 3, explains the arc: "The first Spider-Man was about the reluctant hero learning about his power. No. 2 was the kid learning to handle this awesome responsibility among other aspects of life, like love. No. 3 is, Does it go to his head? Once you master your ability and everybody applauds you, do you believe your own publicity...
...billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel $100 million Amount Shaked says he would give if the Palestinian and Israeli Premiers simply sit down to talk...