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...needs his Michael Jordan, and the game's only superstar isn't playing along. Garry Kasparov, ranked No. 1 in the world for the past 17 years, has called Ilyumzhinov's version of the game "the end of chess as we know it" and urged his fellow grandmasters to boycott FIDE events. "If the leading players do not organize themselves soon," Kasparov told TIME, "classical chess will all but disappear." (Ilyumzhinov, for his part, has called Kasparov "unbalanced...
...essential fact that critics of the Living Wage Campaign’s tactics have overlooked is that what they call “coercion” is and always has been the only effective expression of workers’ organized power in the absence of workplace democracy. Strikes, pickets, boycotts and media campaigns are not intended to convince corporations that exploiting their workers is immoral. To expect this would be hopelessly naive. Workers go on strike to cripple their employer severely enough that paying workers more is the less costly alternative. Farm workers organized the historic California grape boycott...
Looking back on his tenure, Pryor said he was also proud of events held at the ARCO forum during the past two years, calling the Montogmery bus boycott and the Cuban Missile crisis forums “magic moments...
...past week the Theatricals cast has been embroiled in talks about the raucous night, with three members calling for a cast boycott, said a cast member who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
Equally contentious were the Russians, who threatened to boycott the closing ceremony. Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev claimed that Olympic officials had treated Larissa Lazutina, a nine-time Olympic medal winner, unfairly when they disqualified her from the 4x5-km cross-country relay after she failed a blood test administered just prior to competition. The Russians, who have had a poor showing at the Games, also complained that their hockey team was heavily penalized and that their skaters, including silver medalist Irina Slutskaya, were harshly judged. In Moscow, politicians, reflecting public anger, expressed outrage. Sports Minister Pavel Rozhkov demanded...