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...thing in the industry is gambling on mobile phones. In the past few months, PartyGaming and several other companies, including land-based British bookmakers such as Ladbrokes, have launched pilot wireless-gambling projects; in PartyGaming's offering, mobile-phone users can download the software free by sending a text message and then play roulette or slot machines for fun or money...
...struck," frets Jagdish Bhagwati, a specialist in the economics of trade at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the WTO, acknowledged as much this month when he said that too little progress has been made even to have a full draft text of a new trade accord ready for Hong Kong...
...like Eliot Fete on anabolics, replete with a rave-out performance by the paler members of Radiohead and Pulp.Humor keeps this “Potter” chapter from immersion into tonal darkness, much of it emerging in dialogue invented in the adaptation from J.K. Rowling’s text. Ron breathlessly justifies asking French Triwizard contestant Fleur Delacour to the dance: “She was walking. You know how I like it when they walk.” In a nighttime stroll, Beauxbatons headmistress Madame Maxine plucks something out of companion Hagrid’s beard and eats...
Long messages may be painful, but I consider abbreviated text messages simply criminal. “R u free 2nite 4 din in lev?” leaves me with little appetite whatsoever. Texting should be reserved for late-night, mid-party, last-resort invites, immediately post-date thanks, and quick in-class chit-chat between friends. If you must resort to romantic rumination via Verizon, at least provide your name or initial since it’s smoother to assume we don’t have your number stored away—just because we do, along with...
...that’s only because it reminded me of a similar experience my roommate had last year. I soon got over my nostalgia, realizing that nothing could salvage such annoying self-obsession: not hot lesbian make-out sessions, not Fab Moretti banging on a drum, not even text message bathroom fellatio invitations. Sad, perhaps, but, in their own words, “that’s the way it is.”—Henry M. CowlesJesus of SuburbiaGreen Day Green Day seem to want nothing more than to be taken seriously these days, after a decade...