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Finishing strong will be especially important for Harvard with tough games against conference rivals Cornell and Colgate coming up next weekend. The Crimson aims for victories against these two competitors to earn a bid for home ice in the playoffs...
...YouTube, particularly as the company has made a cautious foray into the movie-rental business. Services like Google Voice stand to benefit as well, as better speeds could let Google expand the product into a full-fledged VoIP telephone service. But ultimately this might be best read as a bid toward the future. "We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra-high speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive 'killer apps' and services, or other uses we can't yet imagine," Google's announcement read. Whatever those unknown uses are, Google is as well situated...
...none of the options facing the U.S. in its bid to bring tax cheats to justice appear promising. Which makes that lost opportunity with Birkenfeld, if true, something of a black eye for the U.S. Justice Department...
...Resorts World Sentosa executives, for their part, say they were aware of the local entrance fees before they bid for the casino. They counter that they have a diverse range of entertainment offerings, including the Universal Studios theme park as well as fine dining and hotels, and so are not solely reliant on gaming. (Local families who elect to only visit Universal Studios and not gamble, for instance, would not have to pay the casino entrance fee.) "Resorts World is on track to reach its target of 13 million visitors in its first year of operations," says Robin Goh, Assistant...
...world's best athletes bid for gold at the Winter Games in Vancouver over the coming 16 days, we can be sure that every double Axel will be scrutinized and every race timed to one-thousandth of a second. But in a world obsessed with precision, one issue continues to escape neat classification and a simple solution: how to handle sexually ambiguous athletes...