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...original goal is to create a free encylopedia for every person on the planet in their own language. We're doing well if we look at the languages of Europe, and Chinese and Japanese, but not as well in others. Some Indian languages have started to take off on different projects that are growing 10% per month or better. We have a few that are just over 10,000 articles and a whole group of them that are between 3,000 and 5,000 articles. I've been to India three times in the last 9 months. The communities...
...everything from sports shoes to banks. Money in sport isn't a bad thing; the more serious damage has been done by the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on illegal betting on cricket matches. Ahead of Friday's game between India and Sri Lanka, for instance, one Indian newspaper reports that bookmakers in Dubai alone have taken in some $23 million. All that money creates a compelling incentive for match-fixing...
...long maintained that he was bribed to deliberately get himself out during the 1983-84 Pakistan-Australia series. A decade later, three Australian players publicly alleged that Salim Malik of Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian capital New Delhi intercepted a telephone conversation between an illegal bookmaker and South African captain Hansie Cronje in which the two discussed how much Cronje would make if he threw a match. Cronje subsequently admitted a long series of transgressions and fingered Indian players Mohamed Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma...
...Woolmer, who died only hours after his team lost to rank outsiders Ireland in a match that effectively eliminated Pakistan from the competition, had been working on a book that some Pakistani and Indian commentators have speculated would expose match-fixing within the team - a notion that Woolmer's co-author says is nonsense...
...long as the Breaux question remains unsettled, it appears that Louisiana may be headed for another milestone: Jindal, if he succeeds the state's first woman governor, would become the nation's first Indian-American governor. But Louisiana's peculiar open primary system, in which candidates of all parties vie for a spot in the November runoff election, has a way of producing surprises; throw the lingering effects of Katrina in the mix, and anything is possible. Just ask Kathleen Blanco...