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...those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive-simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren Kuckelman, Reedley, California...
...primaries are pushing the Democrats too far to the left on some issues. And that's not the only way they're hurting the Democrats' chances. Neither Clinton nor Obama is entirely to blame for the racial overtones of the primary campaign, but they make the problem of patching the party together harder...
...some things you need to know about me. Every winter, I change my clock forward a single hour and fall into a total despair. I lie in bed eating Dove Promises and wondering when the goddamn sun will come back out. After years of trying to pin the blame for this behavior on outside forces—El Niño! our economic situation!—it was this winter that I finally accepted the fact that I’m a victim of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
...Admittedly, it is hard to blame a casting director for looking at a quintessentially American role like Willy Loman’s in “Death of a Salesman” and visualizing a white actor because that is how the role is traditionally portrayed. But Loman’s character encompasses a more fundamental struggle to achieve the American Dream that transcends race. Why, then, can’t Loman’s character be played equally well by others who represent one of the many other peoples whose struggle to achieve the American dream is just...
...both teams. “Whenever you have really close matches, you see the referee play a bigger role,” O’Connor said. “But the referee didn’t win or lose any of the matches for us. All the blame should be on us,” he added. “It all comes back to us not extending our lead and putting ourselves in position to have the match come down to the referee,” he added. After going through another meet short-handed, the team hopes...