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...early to bet against these sites. The sharpest tool available to prosecutors against online gambling firms is the the U.S. Wire Act, which was conceived in the 1960s, long before the world went digital, and prohibits bets by wire communication. But since a U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that the act applied only to sports gambling, poker operators have denied that poker is a sport. (Those taking sports bets argue too that the Internet has changed the rules of the game and claim that the Wire Act is not applicable to such digital wagers...
...welcomed the bombings. Many analysts dismiss the call as a hoax, but the fear lingers that India may be highly vulnerable to international terrorist attacks, especially now that the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is aligned in a strategic partnership with Washington. "India is now a tool in the U.S. war on terror," says Mahesh Bhatt, a filmmaker and promoter of peace between India and Pakistan. "It is only logical that one day al-Qaeda will want to break that tool...
...intimate relationship between Iran and Hizballah has evolved since 2000, when Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon freed the militant group to expand the scope of its activities in the region. U.S. officials believe Iran has looked increasingly to Hizballah as a tool to thwart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by encouraging the group to lend operational support to Hamas and Islamic Jihad...
...Finally, Petersen said he will be working later this summer with the Registrar’s office to create a more useful course-browsing tool. He said his plans come as a result of the web site Michael W. Reckhow ’06 created this spring. Reckhow’s site ranked courses according to data from the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide...
...effective will these social networking sites be as a campaign tool? Many politicians are still having trouble grappling with the concept of blogs. Lichtman, 59, didn't even know what MySpace was until his young campaign staffers told him about it last winter. Months later, he has yet to actually use MySpace; its daily maintenance is left to his youth outreach director, Erin Lauer...