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...Proposals banning banks and credit card companies from processing online gaming payments won backing in the House last week, but Senate passage is far from certain. Ahead of a Senate vote, authorities are "trying to build up a head of steam against the industry," says Warwick Bartlett, head of the U.K.-based Global Betting and Gaming Consultants. He credits the Justice Department with good p.r. Following the indictments, "the average person in the U.S. will think something needs to be done" about online gaming...
Hizballah is the wild card. There is always the possibility it could try to order up terrorist attacks against Israeli and Western targets around the world. If pushed to stop fighting, the group could lash out against its critics in Lebanon, unleashing the forces of civil war that ravaged the highly sectarian country for 15 years until 1990, and creating a new field of instability even as the U.S. struggles with crises in places like Iraq and Iran. Israel's strikes against Lebanon have provoked Shi'ite radicals in Iraq, who are threatening to attack U.S. troops in retaliation...
...Spring 1962. Eighty pages, 16 in color, in the oversize, art-book format. The mustard colored cover has an embossed playing card of Bluebeard and one of his maids, the teaser to a five-page feature inside. Ray Bradbury contributed a lovely short fiction, a sort of "Gift of the Magi," in bed. Sixteen pages are devoted to a Guy de Maupassant story, Madame Tellier's Brothel, in "a new uncensored translation" and illustrated with 12 monograph sketches by Degas...
...banlieue told reporters that defending his honor was more important than the World Cup. Indeed, Zidane's mother may have been speaking for more than just her family when she told a British newspaper, "Our whole family is deeply saddened that Zinedine's career should end with a red card but at least he has his honor. Some things are bigger than football...
...Because having the wrong identity can be fatal, more and more Baghdadis are taking steps to adopt new ones. The market for counterfeit IDs is booming. Since the start of this year, the asking price has doubled to $100 per card. Iraqi IDs are primitive, with data written by hand on cards that are then laminated. Forgers can churn out scores a day. And that's just one survival technique for those in the line of fire. Websites like the Iraqi League (www.iraqirabita.org) offer detailed tips on how Sunnis can pass themselves off as Shi'ites - like how to pray...