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Poker was first broadcast on television in 1993, but it wasn't until 2002 that the game became watchable. In No Limit Texas Hold 'Em (the preferred game of the poker cognoscenti), players are dealt two cards that only they can see, called "hole cards," and then five more community cards are placed in the middle of the table. According to Lon McEachern, the play-by-play guy on World Series, watching Hold 'Em without seeing the hole cards "was like having McEnroe and Boris Becker playing Wimbledon in the dark, then turning on the lights after the point...
...FACING THE SAUDI PROBLEM Perhaps the biggest unsolved mystery left over from the attacks is, How much help--financial and otherwise--does bin Laden get from old friends in Saudi Arabia, and why hasn't the U.S. dealt more harshly with the Saudi problem? Treasury officials have been arguing for months to come down harder on Saudis who were giving cash to known bin Laden charity fronts. Last year Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was found to have given money directly to the family of a Saudi...
...judge in the U.K. who slapped Uzan family members with a 15-month jail term for contempt of court and a worldwide freeze on assets, he "thinks he rules the world." The whole Motorola-Nokia lawsuit is merely a "business dispute between one company and another" and should be dealt with in arbitration, says Uzan. He claims his family would have paid back the money if Turkey had not suffered a major economic crisis. That doesn't help Nokia and Motorola. As a result of the losses, Motorola is facing 19 class actions from investors who say the firm failed...
...Louis, Mo., the site of their annual spring meeting, they were quickly disabused of that notion. The resignation of Frank Keating, the former Oklahoma Governor who was chair of the Conference of Catholic Bishops' lay review board, reopened the festering controversy over whether the church has adequately dealt with the scandal arising from allegations of sexual abuse by priests...
...been partial and conditional, and he claims to have achieved understandings with Washington that issues such as the settlement freeze - which Sharon finds politically difficult as one of the founding fathers of the movement to settle Israeli civilians on lands occupied in 1967 but never annexed - will be dealt with separately in talks between the U.S. and Israel. Sharon has agreed to dismantle a dozen settlement outposts built without government authorization in recent years, but he has fudged the requirement that all settlements built since March 2001 - reported to number some 200 - be dismantled during Phase 1 of the roadmap...