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...relocated to Las Vegas but kept up ties to the hometown bookies. As a local bookie told a potential customer, in a conversation picked up on wiretaps, "We're a pretty big operation. We're based in Las Vegas, and I work this local branch. We're a full-tilt operation...
Even at less than a hundred percent, Gunther is an asset to the Crimson, and she could not have picked a better time to rejoin the team. Saturday's tilt with Penn marked the start of a tough five-game road trip that includes a swing along the West Coast for a pair of contests...
...Harvard will enter its tilt with Penn tomorrow with momentum on its side following its 7-1 blowout of Vermont. That contest saw the Crimson perform much better in all aspects of its game than it did in a 3-0 loss to Texas A&M the previous week. Harvard had much working against its favor in that opening game, not least of which was the fact that it had only been back on campus practicing for just over a week. The Aggies, on the other hand, already had several games under their belts by then...
...cypherpunks, like the hippies, love to tilt against windmills. Their most glamorous imaginary weapon is not free speech or free software or even free music. It is free money, anonymous electronic cash and untraceable digital funds, free of all government oversight and laundered over the Internet. Dotcom stocks have turned out to be surprisingly close to this utopian vision. They are rather destabilizing...
...troops will then fly into a foreign hot spot on huge, ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. The C-130-size "quad tilt-rotor" will be able to carry nearly 100 troops more than 2,000 miles. The rotors, perched at the ends of a pair of big wings, act like a helicopter's for takeoffs and landings, eliminating the need for runways. But once airborne, the rotors tilt forward and pull the plane through the sky at more than 350 m.p.h...