Long suspected of running the Tangiers without a gaming license, yesterday's hearing was to determine whether someone with Rothstein's checkered past history was qualified to officially hold a top gaming post.

Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday. The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.

Recalling his anxiety as an unblooded lieutenant on the eve of the Mexican War, Ulysses S. Grant confessed, “I felt sorry that I had enlisted.”

Mathew Merygreeke: I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie? Tibet Talkapace: Not with you sir, but with a little wag-pastie, A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile. Mathew Merygreeke: I knowe where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile.