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...like blackjack, as well as lotteries and sports betting, are finding new homes online. According to Warwick Bartlett, who runs the British firm Global Betting & Gaming Consultants, almost $12 billion will be wagered over the Internet this year, or close to 5% of the world's total gross gambling yield. Over the next five years, the consultancy estimates, the total take will soar to about $22 billion, or about 7.5% of the industry total. "You've got at least 10 years of strong growth in the sector," Bartlett predicts...
...previous. Number of Museums Harvard: 13 Yale: 5 Edge: Harvard; old, expensive objects. Age of Institution Harvard: 369 years Yale: 304 years Edge: Harvard. As illustrated above, we value old things. We also have Sam Huntington. Acceptance Rate Harvard: 9.1% Yale: 9.7% Edge: Harvard. Egos thrive on exclusivity. Admissions Yield Harvard: 78% Yale: 68% Edge: Harvard; applicants on Yale’s wait-list. City Air Pollution Index (lower is better) Cambridge: 75 New Haven: 96 Edge: Harvard; our lungs. City Property Crime Risk (lower is better) Cambridge: 102 New Haven: 255 Edge: Harvard; people stealing in New Haven; people...
...replace Libby with counsel David S. Addington as a sign that Cheney was circling the wagons rather than making peace with his detractors inside the government. They reason that Addington is a hard-liner who has made enemies around the West Wing with his unwillingness to cooperate or yield on troublesome issues like a court fight for access to records of Cheney's energy task force...
...Irish Brown has had a charmed career. Propelled by education-focused parents and an MBA from Columbia University, she moved smoothly from Wall Street to Washington to corporate finance. Though she succeeded as an investment banker specializing in high-yield capital markets, Irish Brown, whose four grandparents emigrated from the Caribbean, noticed few faces like hers in the workplace. On Wall Street, "diversity has been an issue for a long time not just for people of color but women as well," she says. "Being a woman of color, you notice it from both angles...
Finally, a change in street sign will yield an unimaginable cache of social capital for a people attuned to market fluctuations. The process of revision alone has brought people together against a common enemy, exchanging letters and doing lunch. Once implemented, the change would replace the widespread apprehension with a stone wall of unity in values. Homogeneity counts, and so does community spirit...