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Next week 600 gamers from 55 countries will compete in Seoul, South Korea, at the third annual World Cyber Games for prizes worth $350,000. The big draw: Counter-Strike, in which teams of "terrorists" and "counterterrorists" battle it out. Other six-figure tournaments include one hosted by the Cyberathlete Professional League, which offers $250,000 in cash and merchandise and boasts an online audience in the tens of thousands, and id Software's QuakeCon, in which 400 top gamers play Quake III and other id titles...
...city of Jenin--was believed to have acted in revenge for the killing of her brother and cousin by Israeli soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah Shami, said the strike already showed the failure of the "racist isolation security fence." But the bombing is likely to spur Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into speeding up construction of the barrier, despite opposition from Washington...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and had been used by the Tehran-funded Islamic Jihad. A senior Islamic Jihad source in Gaza told TIME that Iranian military officers visited Ein Saheb in early summer, intending to equip it specifically for Islamic Jihad. If the Israeli strike was meant to stop the Palestinian suicide-bombing campaign, it failed. Last Thursday a bomber killed himself and wounded two Israeli soldiers and another Palestinian at a checkpoint in the West Bank. Hopes for a cease-fire also faded when Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, sworn in on Tuesday, threatened...
...scored its goal 7:46 into the game, when senior Mina Pell, as is her custom, watered the turf at her feet with her gatorade bottle prior to her penalty corner, and subsequently rocketed a pass to senior Jen Ahn, who calmly served it up to Maasdorp for the strike past Northeastern net minder Diana Nelson...
...department isn’t the only sex-obsessed one out there, shocking as it may seem). I’ve gone home to re-read Yeat’s “September, 1913” poem after learning in history class about the brutal crushing of a strike in Dublin that inspired the poem...