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...Pick 6, players have to call the winners in six different races. With so many possible outcomes, even the best handicappers typically bet on more than one horse to win each race. Davis, on the contrary, "singled" the first four races, picking only one horse, in each case the winner...
What the Drexel three knew, say prosecutors, is that Pick 6 bets collected at off-site locations such as Catskill OTB aren't transmitted to the host track until the fifth race. Reason: the computer matrix that handles wagers nationwide was not designed to collect such exotic bets in real time. That time warp would give someone with access to the system a chance to change bets on the first four races after the results were in. Harn showed up unexpectedly for work at Autotote's Newark, Del., offices on Oct. 26 and logged on to the Catskill OTB site...
...produced)--were about $40 million. The combined take in North America was $185 million. Barbershop, a PG-13 celebration of community, has earned nearly $75 million on a $12 million investment. This week Cube launches the third in his R-rated Friday series, Friday After Next. And you can bet that it will end up where the others did: in the black...
...three-day off-site for 100 executives who are based in cities all over the U.S. and are accustomed to four-star accommodations. Where do you book the meeting without breaking the bank? According to GetThere, a Menlo Park, Calif., company that produces automated travel-reservation systems, your best bet is Jacksonville, Fla. (shown at right). Using an online program called DirectMeetings, GetThere ranked 26 U.S. cities, using factors like cost of accommodations and airfares. Jacksonville, where you could hold the described meeting for $139,000, topped the bargain list, followed by Indianapolis, Ind., at $147,000. Most expensive were...
...Kastanjen Sophisticated but unpretentious seasonal fare at reasonable (for Oslo) prices. The seafood's always a good bet. Bygd...