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...starters, there are now 57 events, and it moved to the Rio [Las Vegas Hotel & Casino] in 2005. They also now play the Final Table in November so it can be on prime-time television. All of these changes were designed to accommodate and capitalize on a bigger field. The first year I did it, we couldn't even fill a table. They had something like 6,800 total entrants for last year's Main Event. In the beginning, it was always a bunch of touring pros in these. Now there are a lot of amateurs, some of whom...
...Aviv Netanyahu's Change of Heart For the first time since assuming office in April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the prospect of establishing a demilitarized Palestinian state. Netanyahu's departure from his hawkish stance against statehood was welcomed as a "positive movement" by President Obama, who has pressured Israel to resume peace efforts. But senior Palestinian officials vehemently rejected Netanyahu's statements; negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Prime Minister's intransigence on crucial sticking points--like his insistence on demilitarization and refusal to consider the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the West Bank--"closed the door to permanent...
...London Reassessing the Road to War British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into Britain's role in the deeply unpopular war in Iraq that has claimed the lives of 179 British soldiers. But news that the inquiry would be closed to the public and that its results would not come out until after the next election outraged critics and opposition parties. Foreign Secretary David Millibrand dismissed claims of "an Establishment stitch-up," saying, "If you are looking for a great conspiracy, you are not going to find...
...reason for canceling Thursday's scheduled meeting in Paris between Benjamin Netanyahu and George Mitchell was simple: there was nothing for the Israeli Prime Minister and President Obama's Middle East peace envoy to discuss. The U.S. has demanded a complete freeze in Israeli settlement construction in territories conquered in 1967, making it a litmus test of Israel's bona fides in pursuing the two-state solution, which the Obama Administration has prioritized. Netanyahu, who faces more public pressure from Washington than any Israeli leader in nearly two decades, says he wants peace talks and recently declared his qualified support...
...Protect Journalists (CPJ), Russia is the third most dangerous country to work in for journalists, with 50 killed since 1992. Most recently, in January Anastasiya Baburova, another Novaya Gazeta journalist, was shot and killed alongside human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov in broad daylight in central Moscow. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have pledged to enforce the rule of law by investigating crimes against the press. Nonetheless, attacks on journalists continue to occur with impunity," wrote CPJ director Joel Simon in a letter to President Obama ahead of his trip to Moscow. "This record of impunity is a matter...