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...have the horse race all sewn up: he was 10 lengths ahead of second favorite Ballinger Ridge with less than half the distance to go in the March 2 betdirect.co.uk Median Auction Maiden Stakes. Then, to the astonishment of the punters at Lingfield Park, the six-time British champion jockey glanced over his shoulder and appeared to ease up - and the 8-11 favorite Rye passed him on the line. What had happened? The Sunday tabloid News of the World published a story alleging Fallon had predicted to its undercover reporters that his horse would lose the race and that...
...gambling. The biggest exchange, Betfair, told the Jockey Club that the Lingfield race attracted more than three times the bets expected on such a lowly contest, most of them going on Ballinger Ridge, either to win or lose. The Jockey Club's John Maxse said it would investigate that, and any failure by Fallon to get the best possible place, saying: "The matter is our No. 1 priority." Racing's Rubber Match Was that a fat lady singing on the podium after the very first Grand Prix of the Formula One season? You might have thought so, given the stunned...
...biggest now-you-tell-us moments of the year, Clear Channel Communications, the largest U.S. radio chain, last week deemed disc jockey HOWARD STERN "vulgar, offensive and insulting" and dropped his syndicated show from the six stations that aired it. (It can still be heard on dozens of stations on the Infinity network.) Coincidentally, Clear Channel CEO John Hogan testified the next day before a congressional committee on media indecency. As for Stern, his show will be suspended until Clear Channel is assured that he will meet decency standards. (Should be real soon.) Even conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh...
Iraq's future stability depends in large part on whether the newly trained security forces can bring about peace. That will require overcoming age-old grievances that are bubbling to the surface as tribal, ethnic and religious groups jockey to fill the power vacuum left by the fallen police state. Some are taking the law into their own hands. Almost a year after the Americans arrived, newspapers still report the slayings of former Baathists, scientists and professors, as political and private scores are settled not by the gavel but by the gun. In recent weeks, attacks against police have continued...
...sits a compact disc without liner notes; they fell out long ago. Now white labels cover the case, with the scrawling of many hands over every square inch. The record is Zopilote Machine by the Mountain Goats, and the writing logs every date and time a Record Hospital disc jockey experienced a moment of epiphany listening to the soaring “Going To Georgia”—to this day the most powerful song in the Goats’ prolific catalog...