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...says Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group representing 25 major gaming companies. "The state of Illinois should not dictate the choices parents make," says Lowenstein, who believes that the industry should continue to regulate itself. In fact, some retailers are making an effort to crack down. David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says big stores like Target have locking registers that do not permit video-game transactions until a buyer's date of birth is punched in. Proof of age isn't always requested, however. And compliance among retailers is voluntary...
...Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place in a Russian tax dispute. The ruling prompted Putin to crack: "I am not even sure the judge knows where Russia is," but a procedural hearing is set for this week. Yukos' lawyers say that even if the sale is a done deal, the company would seek damages against anyone helping in the sale of assets they insist are under protection...
...would enter the record books as a tie, but once again, Harvard would not get its crack at a tournament title. Nor would it get a crack at No. 1 Minnesota, which would go on to defeat Merrimack 6-2 in the evening's matchup...
Critics say team officials have been slow to crack down for fear of alienating their fans. European writers have spent years trying to explain fan violence. Some see it as a proxy for race or class. Others, like author Bill Buford, who described his four years with English soccer hooligans in the book Among the Thugs, came away believing it was the symptom of a "bored, empty, decadent generation." The culture is "so deadened," he wrote, "that it uses violence to wake itself up."--By Jeff Israely/ Rome. With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris and Hugh Porter/ London
...east to protest what people there saw as a stolen election. Political leaders, defiant of Kiev's authority, angrily rejected the decision to hold another poll and called for the creation of a new autonomous region. Some even threatened to join eastern Ukraine with Russia. The electoral impasse could crack the country along the acute cultural and political rifts that divide it. "We are dealing with a deep split in the country," says Andrzej Zalucki, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland, which shares with Ukraine a border that stretches more than 250 miles. "It's worse than just...