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...wagers a second. The small cut the firm takes from the bettors' winnings these days adds up to big profits: Betfair pocketed $39 million in net earnings last year. And in refusing wagers from the U.S. - where online gambling is outlawed - Betfair has dodged a recent clampdown on rival Internet operators. Here is their story, as told to TIME's Adam Smith...
...winds from the ocean so you typically have high winds there and they were even higher [Sunday]. It’s a nice view but not good for golf.” On day one, Harvard shot 300, five shots off the pace set by rival Yale and good enough for second place. Round two’s 312 pushed the Crimson back to fourth after Columbia scorched the field with a 293. Yale held on to first with a 299. Ultimately, Yale came apart on day three, shooting 315 to Columbia’s 304 and cementing the Bulldog?...
...Paraszczak ’11, a Canaday IM representative and leader of the protest effort, “the last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site, individual events within the Yard Bucket Competition are weighted according to a normalized scale from one to four based on the actual number of people in the dorm. Thus Canaday, the largest dorm, is multiplied by one. In an e-mail...
...recently as last November, Clinton's senior advisers were dismissive of their rival's online army, saying Obama's supporters "look like Facebook." They don't feel that way anymore. Since February, when Clinton began pushing the website more as a fund-raising vehicle, Hillaryland has increasingly emphasized the opportunities for supporters to get involved in the campaign...
...This book constitutes the wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work.' J.K. ROWLING, author of the Harry Potter series, testifying against the planned publication of rival Potter encyclopedia...