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...coveted place in the "November Nine." He wouldn't be there if not for the implosion of his longtime employer Bear Stearns, where he headed corporate strategy and helped wind down the firm's business amid the financial panic of 2008. The demise of Bears Stearns marked the rise of Begs the poker player. After the firm was sold to JPMorgan in March of 2008, Begleiter was without work and looking for someplace to let off steam. "I decided what the heck," he recalls. "I'm going to play the Main Event...
...Wall Street executive - has been hurt in his race against Republican former prosecutor Chris Christie by flare-ups of local public corruption and by eye-popping property-tax rates. But Corzine has fought back from a near fatal deficit earlier in the year thanks to four factors: 1) the rise of Chris Daggett, an independent candidate who has drawn votes away from Christie, giving Corzine a chance to win with far less than 50% of the vote, 2) the focus on Christie's personal baggage, such as the shady circumstances involving his office spending, an unreported loan...
...trickiest and least understood methods of modern warfare. The tactic has existed in various forms since the 17th century, when Dutch soldiers used gunpowder to blow themselves and their enemies up to avoid being taken prisoner in Taiwan. Since then, suicide attacks have steadily been on the rise, surging more than 300% since 2001, leaving defense experts and government officials struggling to effectively counter their devastating spread. In his new book Dying for Heaven, Georgetown University religion professor Ariel Glucklich describes the religious, social and psychological motivations behind this disturbing phenomenon, the frightening ways it could affect the future...
...basket in March 2008 to the home of an American family in Israel who belonged to a messianic Jewish sect. The homemade bomb seriously wounded a 15-year-old boy, Ami Ortiz, severing two of his toes, damaging his hearing and threatening his promising basketball career. (Read "As Tensions Rise, Jerusalem Could Pose a New Crisis...
...boat from Indonesia has become routine for the Australian navy since Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd snuffed out the Pacific Solution in 2007. This year, more than 1,700 people have arrived by boat to Australia, compared to 161 last year. The opposition Liberal Party of Australia attributes the rise in asylum seekers directly to Rudd's new policies, saying that looser laws are encouraging more refugees to head Down Under through human-smuggling rings in Indonesia. They point to the fact that Rudd sped up the processing for protection-visa applications, and has guaranteed permanent residency to the successful...