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Manhunt is an exceptionally violent game--garrote a villain with a sharp wire, and a finely rendered mist of blood sprays from his severed carotid. Interestingly, the game's premise feels like an attempt to help you sidestep any twinges of conscience you may feel at your own sadism--hey, it's that sick director guy who's making you do this! Not that this is any excuse, but if you can make your peace with the carnage, the game play is a bracing change from the usual button-mashing slugfests: Manhunt's thrills aren't in the action; they...
...Bulgarian forgers are among the most active in Europe, but they are not alone. Across Eastern Europe - and recently in the West as well - skilled forgers have been churning out fake euros at an alarming rate. Fraud police in the 12 countries of the euro zone report a sharp increase in both the quantity and quality of counterfeit notes entering circulation this year. One of the culprits: weak or nonexistent anticounterfeiting legislation in some East European countries, which makes it nearly impossible to get a forgery conviction. Nearly two years after the introduction of a common currency, the euro...
...fact, police throughout the euro zone are reporting a sharp rise in cases of people caught trying to pass counterfeit bills. Austrian antifraud investigators who rarely laid eyes on a fake schilling before the changeover reported 3,000 cases of counterfeit euros last year. This year, they've seen 15,000, mostly originating in Bulgaria, says Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most...
...Sharp added that he did not know enough about the situation in Miami to determine whether or not the students’ behavior was acceptable...
With its quick, man-to-man perimeter defense designed to shut down sharp-shooting Ivy opponents being exploited by Holy Cross’ slashing guards, Harvard fell back into a 1-2-2 zone, surrendering less tightly guarded outside shots in favor of defending the paint...