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...result but on specific plays: how many runs an individual batsman will make, how he will get out, when he will get out. This so-called spread or spot betting means games can be tampered with, if not completely rigged. Did Woolmer discover something untoward in the shock defeat to Ireland or the earlier loss to the West Indies that could have led to a confrontation and his death? Could he have been about to make some revelation about match fixing from his time with South Africa (he left before Cronje's admissions) and Pakistan in a book...
...asked for my help. I'm sure everybody is afraid to have me as part of their cheerleading crew. They still believe that something untoward went on at that Kerry event. [Goldberg got into hot water for her risqué jokes at a 2004 John Kerry fund raiser...
...Will the new revelations about the NSA tip the balance? Perhaps. According to the story, the NSA is not actually listening in on the phone calls but monitoring the patterns of calls in a kind of giant Google search, with the hope that their algorithm will detect something untoward and worth investigating. But even if your call to Aunt Sally isn't being listened to by some NSA officer, the program sounds creepy enough that no shortage of senators jumped all over it. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he'd subpoena...
...center insists the trip would have gone forward even without the contributions from Abramoff's lobbying clients and that there was nothing untoward about a board member--Abramoff, in this case--helping to arrange a center-sponsored trip. "The center believed then and the center believes now the trip was entirely appropriate, as I'm sure does Tom DeLay," says a source close to the center, which would not comment on the record. DeLay's office maintains the Congressman did important work on the trip, the highlight of which was a meeting with conservative icon Margaret Thatcher. The long-retired...
...faculty were “very supportive,†said Senior Lecturer David J. Collis. “It was basically pretty normal, nothing untoward...