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A prodigy from New York who managed, improbably, to make chess cool, Fischer rocketed to stardom for his aggressive play and flamboyance. In 1972, at the age of 29, he defeated Russian Boris Spassky for the world title in a cold war showdown that made him an American hero. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Gambit | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

properly as long as they stay within the law." Others see a campaign to strip Khodorkovsky of political influence, roll back the power and wealth of the Russian oligarchs, and perhaps even renationalize Russia's oil industry. The clearest indication of motive may have come last month, when Putin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Yukos Endgame | 8/22/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Bobby Fischer No More | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

DIED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia and an investigative journalist; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant as he left his office in Moscow; the shooting had the hallmarks of a contract hit. A New Yorker of Russian descent, Klebnikov won notoriety in Russia in the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 19, 2004 | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

KILLED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia magazine; by multiple gunshot wounds; in Moscow. A former senior editor with Forbes in the U.S., Klebnikov was the author of a 2000 biography of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky called Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. Klebnikov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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