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...when I realized that, as a hobby or a part-time job, I was making far more per hour gambling than I was teaching,” Ian says, in his own version of a stock statement among professional gamblers. Disgruntled, under-appreciated—and then bewildered, struck by the clarity of the situation like Saul encountering the Lord: it’s a trajectory many working gamblers describe when they recount their transition from what some may call a “normal” life to a more alternative one. After five years teaching, Ian switched...
...Friars struck right back with a goal on a redirection by midfielder Marc Cintron with just 27 seconds remaining in regulation...
...Dividing its enemies and isolating the more hawkish among them has been a hallmark of Tehran's diplomacy, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy routinely plays the tough cop with Iran, threatening and goading its leaders and urging U.S. President Barack Obama to take a tougher line. On Tuesday, Iran struck back with a humiliating slap-down, insisting that France butt out of the deal because Tehran could not trust the nation to honor its commitments. Iranian diplomats even delayed the start of the day's talks in Vienna on the agreement, insisting that it was unnecessary for the French...
...Persians, and the Baluchi minority. The attack involved a suicide bomber entering a mosque in the city of Pisheen during a meeting between local Sunni and Shi'ite leaders that was organized by the Revolutionary Guards to improve dialogue between the two communities. A second bomber struck a vehicle containing several Guards officers. The dead included the lieutenant commander of the Guards' ground forces in all of Iran as well as the Guards commander of the Sistan-Baluchistan region...
...Baluchi separatists who struck on Sunday may imagine their deed simply as the violent pursuit of a local objective, but in a region divided by a number of interlocking tensions that carry within them the seeds of conflict, politics often fails to remain local for very long...