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Another fantasy tracker reports that on average, players are paying $73 to join football leagues this year, compared with $59 last year; despite the economic downturn, leagues are upping their entry fees - and their cash prizes. Meanwhile, as companies are slashing ad budgets in most places, they are pouring funds into fantasy sites. Fantasy Sports Ventures, which owns or sells advertising for some 500 such sites, has seen revenue double year over year. Says CEO Chris Russo: "Companies want access to an audience that's passionate and engaged...
...year-old previously worked as a fact checker for the magazine and will replace Kate Julian, who is stepping down to freelance and to join her husband in Washington, D.C. Lester most recently worked as an editor at the Paris Review, a literary magazine based in New York City...
...Both elements signal the arrival of a pivot point in Afghanistan, and one that is looming in Washington. McChrystal, now shepherding the final 6,000 U.S. troops into the country to join the 62,000 already there, knows he needs even more forces to prevail. He's expected to request them sometime before the war's eighth birthday on Oct. 7. That prospect is being viewed coolly inside the Pentagon. But President Obama - who has declared the Afghan conflict his top national-security priority - isn't expected to refuse his handpicked commander's initial request for reinforcements, probably...
...Over the summer, their working group engaged in the first phase, “divergent thinking,” where the working groups’ 11 members proposed ideas without worrying about their practicality or desirability. Three more members will soon join the working group for the second phase: “convergent thinking,” where the working group will decide what to recommend to Smith by the end of October...
...portions recited in daily sermons. The fast lasts until sundown - or until it's too dark to "distinguish a white thread from a black thread," according to the Koran - and is broken with a small meal called an iftar which is followed by the Magrib prayer before the fasters join their families and invite the poor for a larger celebratory meal...