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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...start-ups will have emerged better from the dotcom meltdown than Betfair. Launched in 2000 by Britons Andrew "Bert" Black and Edward Wray, the London-based online betting exchange has since grown into the world's largest. Rather than play house, Betfair matches bettors with odds offered by other users, its whizzy technology handling some 300 wagers a second. The small cut the firm takes from the bettors' winnings these days adds up to big profits: Betfair pocketed $39 million in net earnings last year. And in refusing wagers from the U.S. - where online gambling is outlawed - Betfair has dodged...
...trip drew to a close and the excitement over his sex-scandal responses quieted, it became increasingly clear that although this supposedly "interim" Pope will never be, as Bono once called John Paul II, the rock-'n'-roll style "front man" for his church, he has grown fully into the public aspect of the role. At the North Tower footprint at Ground Zero on Sunday, he kneeled in silent prayer for a full two and a half minutes, the moment made all the more dramatic by the morning's mantle of heavy...
...personal - carried a new significance. "My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers" and "banished God and thus became imperious to anything true and good." He told his young listeners to thank God that they had instead grown up in a society that promotes democracy and human rights, but warned that "the power to destroy does remain," embodied in social ills such as drug abuse, homelessness and poverty, racism violence degradation of girls and women, and - no surprise here, at this point in his visit - false freedom and "relativism...
...reel. You expect that to happen with these kids. But it doesn?t. Instead something that?s equally civilized, but a little less formulaic develops, something that is obviously appealing to the optimism and inexperience of a young audience occurs. This is a fairly low-keyed comedy, but a grown-up dropping in on it can appreciate its lack of frenzy, its fundamental good nature, as easily as its core audience will. It isn?t exactly a gem, but as zircons go, it?...
...dance floor. Then she vaporizes, only to appear again with her legs sprawled over his shoulders. With flashing, multicolored lights and cameos from celebrities like Kanye and Diddy, Usher’s task becomes even more daunting. Everything is unstable. But of course, Usher keeps his cool. Grown-up Hardy Boys never get flustered in the face of a little sexual temptation. In fact, they remember all their lines, throw in some dance moves, and manage to look terribly attractive all at the same time. Near the end of the video Usher finally traps his femme fatale against the wall...