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...Scrabble soap opera went viral earlier this year when both Hasbro and Mattel filed lawsuits against two brothers from Calcutta for launching "Scrabulous," their own online version of the popular word game. Created in 2006 to waste time and wage distant linguistic battles, Scrabulous eventually became the most popular application on Facebook, attracting more than 500,000 players each day to the social-networking site. But the brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, had a quick and clever response to the accusations of copyright infringement. Their newly dubbed "WordScraper" now features a malleable board that, if one feels so inclined...
...Cornell 9-2, 9-7, 9-0. Sophomore Alexandra Zindman picked up her fourth victory of the season with a 3-0 win. “We wanted to win decisively, to dominate. I think we did.” Snyder said, saying that the men’s earlier narrow 6-3 defeat to the Big Red had motivated the team. Junior Sandra Mumanachit continued her solid play at No. 9, defeating Isabella Spyrou 9-2, 9-0, 9-2. Mumanachit, who played anywhere between the sixth and ninth flights last year, has been the Crimson?...
...roads in the north of the country. Few homes in the capital Accra have working sewers. Frustration over all this, say some, is made only deeper by the oil discovery. At a presentation on the election at the independent think-tank, the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, earlier this year, the political analyst and former director of the country's Narcotic Control Board, K. B. Quantson, warned: "Ghana should not delude itself that it is living well above mayhem and the deadly clashes that have unfortunately plagued Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya." The assumption that Ghana's stability will...
...cruel, inhuman or degrading." In recent years, the Bush Administration has interpreted those terms as permitting techniques like "waterboarding", an approach that is widely considered torture, in which detainees experience simulated drowning. The CIA has since said that it has suspended the use of this particular technique, though earlier this year Bush vetoed a bill requiring the CIA to operate under the field manual, and Democrats lacked the votes to override. In any case the Bush legal interpretations are certain to be abolished under the Obama administration, say experts involved in these discussions...
...biblical city of Hebron burned late into the night Thursday, as militant Israeli settler youth went on a violent rampage through Palestinian neighborhoods, burning the property of, shooting at and beating random Palestinians they came across. The militants were reacting to an eviction earlier that day by Israeli security forces of settlers occupying a Hebron house whose ownership is in dispute. Initial indications were that the rioting settlers had injured at least 15 Palestinians, two or three of whom had suffered gunshot wounds, and Israeli security officials were on high alert to prevent any attempted settler terrorist attacks on Palestinian...