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...politics -- on two counts. First, as just about anyone capable of thinking more than a single chess move ahead could have predicted, Buchanan began his air assault anyway. The first TV spot hit last week in Georgia. "The Bush Administration," it says, "has invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show." Second, Bush forthrightly supported Frohnmayer in March 1990: ". . . the Federal Government," said the President, "((shouldn't get)) into telling every artist what he or she can paint." Bush stood up -- and standing up is everything. Ronald Reagan understood that principle of leadership (and political...
...paid a visit to a bespectacled math concentrator who lives upstairs. He was playing chess with his computer, but was still happy to stop and help...
Anand, a 22-year-old economics student from Madras, fought off nine Soviet chess aces, including Kasparov, and finished atop the final standings with six points for a first prize...
...Anand's victory symbolized the crumbling of the Soviet chess monolith, a former Soviet chess champion expressed it in more human terms...
...Several young chess talents live like street bums these days because there isn't any tournament money available," Boris Spassky, famous for his chess duel with American Bobby Fisher in the early 1970s, told Gazzetta dello Sport...