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...formula that offers the prospect of some rest. Sleep manuals outsell even the baby bible What to Expect When You're Expecting. For years, parents have clung to competing sleep-training camps (Never wake a sleeping baby! No naps in the stroller!) in hopeful desperation. So when Dr. Richard Ferber, author of the best-selling 1985 book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, seemingly backpedaled on his signature "cry it out" technique last week, saying his program was never "meant to be the way to solve all sleep problems," bleary-eyed parents across the U.S. were startled awake...
That juicy meal is being shared by PartyGaming and a fast-growing number of competitors. They have names such as 888.com Betandwin.com and Empire Online, and are mainly based in exotic, low-tax jurisdictions such as Gibraltar, Malta or Canada's Kahnawakee Mohawk Indian reservation. Says Richard Segal, an experienced British casino executive who joined PartyGaming as CEO last year and sold more than $15 million worth of stock in the June IPO: "It's like bees around the honeypot...
...second session replacing the late Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged...
...Judge Richard A. Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals criticized the use of foreign precedents in American jurisprudence—an issue that has been thrust into the spotlight by a recent court decision on juvenile execution—at the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday evening. In the case, Roper v. Simmons, the justices decided that the execution of juveniles violates the Eighth Amendment, relying in part on foreign law to justify their decision. Vicki C. Jackson of Georgetown University and Ernest A Young of the University of Texas also...
SEPT. 17, HARVARD at HOLY CROSS, 31-21Turning point: When sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, who lost the starting job to Richard Irvin, hit wide receiver Ryan Tyler for a 48-yard touchdown to erase a 21-20 Harvard deficit with 9:43 remaining in the season opener.Cause for concern: The Crimson’s 13 penalties for 110 yards, the ugliest of which were late hits in the red zone and a facemask call that led to sophomore kicker Matt Schindel’s first missed PAT in 21 attempts.MVP: Give...