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ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on the defeat of the gay-marriage ban...
After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) Fischer has been a wanted man since 1992 when, in violation of a U.S. ban, he headed to Yugoslavia for a highly publicized rematch with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly...
...agreement to build a $350 million hotel and casino as part of a redevelopment of the Thames-side site that will also include an 18,000-seat sports-and-entertainment arena. But all those deals are contingent upon Britain's scrapping several gambling restrictions by 2006, including a ban on casino advertising and a 24-hour waiting period for first-time patrons. Last month, after the government indicated that it may cap the number of slot machines at the largest casinos at 1,250 (roughly half the number in the Bellagio), Las Vegas Sands threatened to curtail its multibillion-dollar...
LETTERS MILESTONES YOUR TIME: Health ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on the defeat of the gay-marriage ban...
According to Japan's spring 2004 Directory of Parliament Officials, Representative Katsuya Okada's personal motto is Tai ki ban sei, a classic Japanese proverb that means "Great talents mature late." But considering that the new president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has rocketed from relative obscurity to what could be the golden era of his political career-all at the comparatively tender age of 52-he may want to revise that motto before the next guide is printed. With the DPJ's strong showing in the recent Upper House parliamentary election, Okada has cemented his position...