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...unknown online player who inspired many a poker habit by capturing the $2.5 million World Series of Poker prize in 2003). But for women, there's the added appeal of having a great time while smashing through a gender barrier. "When you beat guys, it's a rush," says Gloria Tsang, 32, a Los Angeles nurse who took up poker three years ago. "I can play with these boys. I can hang with them...
...arrest of EDUARDO VILLANUEVA, 59, popular Philippine evangelist and politician known as Brother Eddie, in connection with fraud allegations made by a partner in a television joint venture; in Manila. Villanueva, a onetime presidential candidate who has sided with opposition forces calling for the resignation of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, called the case an attempt to silence his criticism of Arroyo's administration. Government officials and the businessman who made the fraud claim, Benito Araneta, have denied Villanueva's allegations of political intimidation...
...computers to Russia. Aragoncillo, who previously worked in the offices of Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney, is suspected of taking classified documents from the same FBI database as Hanssen and passing them to Philippine officials. The documents contained sensitive U.S. intel on Manila politicians, including President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has faced persistent coup rumors...
SACKED. PHILIPPINE MARINE BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCISCO GUDANI, and LIEUT. COLONEL ALEXANDER BALUTAN, by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, for flouting a presidential order prohibiting military men and government employees from appearing before a Senate committee investigating allegations of electoral fraud in 2004's controversial presidential election; in Manila. Arroyo has been under fire since audio tapes, apparently of her speaking to an election commissioner during the vote counting, were released in June, but an impeachment attempt died in the House of Representatives last month. Gudani told the Senate panel last week he was removed from his post in Mindanao for attempting...
...DROPPED. All three impeachment complaints against Philippine President GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, after opponents in the House of Representatives fell 28 votes short of the 79 needed to send a case against her to the Senate; in Manila. Arroyo, who has been under attack over corruption and vote-fraud allegations since June, called the decision "a grand display of political maturity." Her opponents said they would campaign against her through street protests...