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A Sanford judge today ruled that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi does not have to answer defense attorneys' questions under oath in a mammoth Internet casino gambling case pending in Seminole County. Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. made that ruling this morning.The case involves more than 50 defendants, accused of violating the state's gambling, racketeering and money laundering laws by operating Internet cafes that prosecutors say served as storefront gambling parlors. Each had ties to the non-profit Allied Veterans of the World, a group that provided charity to military veterans but, according to authorities, donated just two percent of its...

On a day this month when the US Congress was not in session, hundreds of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) filled members' seats in the House of Representatives to listen to a handful of congressmen speak about India-US technology cooperation. Congressman Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, looked at the Indian audience and quipped: "It is unlikely we have ever had this much brainpower in Congress before." Davis' remark was typical of the praise lavished on alumni from India's elite technology schools by politicians and pundits during a conference here on May 20-22. Participants at the conference,...

Foreign ministers, corporate recruiters, venture capitalists and former General Electric Co. chief executive Jack Welch plan to attend a college reunion in Bethesda this weekend -- and it's not even their own. That's just the kind of lure thousands of alumni from the highly selective Indian Institutes of Technology can have. And that they will gather nearly 7,500 miles away from the nearest campus in New Delhi underscores the weekend's theme: technology without borders.

A Day After Searches, Classes Resume at ITT Technical Institute Campuses Feb. 26, '04 By Mark Jewell / The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Classes resumed Thursday at 10 campuses of ITT Technical Institute in eight states where authorities a day earlier served warrants and searched records in an investigation that spooked investors in the chain of technical schools. After shares of the parent company lost a third of their value Wednesday, ITT Educational Services Inc. issued a statement that offered no details of the focus of the federal investigation. The statement, issued before markets opened Thursday, said ITT "holds...