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...What makes Republican politics into three-dimensional chess is that no candidate seems to measure up to the cherished image of a foursquare Reagan Republican. The party is enduring a dark night of the soul, almost entirely self-inflicted. After the excesses of the recent Republican majority in Congress, the party no longer sees a fiscal conservative in the mirror, while the Bush Administration's chesty foreign policy and churchy personality have driven wedges between conservatives and neoconservatives, between Evangelicals and pragmatists. Trying to find a candidate to rally around is like asking a roomful of picky eaters to agree...
...Patriots paradox to Bellichick. At the beginning of New England's 2001-04 run of three Super Bowl victories, he was Nice Bill, a tireless if disheveled football chess master who had finally escaped the capacious shadow of Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach for whom he had toiled as a longtime assistant. Claiming three of four Super Bowls is a truly mind-boggling feat, given that the NFL's salary-cap structure is designed to spread the wealth and prevent dominance. It takes some kind of football genius to escape the league's parity policy...
...will have the majority to be able to do this," she says. "It calls for tremendous amounts of integrity and political will, which I see lacking in all political parties." But with Sharif now in it, the Pakistani political drama is making for a challenging game of chess for Musharraf...
...seamless transitions, makes the viewer feel the breakneck speed and confusion of the seamy underbelly. And unlike his other films, Ritchie uses this one to to analyze the philosophical aspects of crime. Namely, he delves into what makes a “winner,” primarily through a chess allegory. But the primary flaw of Ritchie’s more philosophical approach is that he fails to incorporate the lessons. Many pieces of advice, especially, “You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent,” are repeated incessantly, boring the viewer to tears...
...events of the past week would be absurd but, tellingly, they did not shock many. President Putin, hiding in the Kremlin and protected by favorable public opinion, has had a crucial opponent arrested for taking part in a demonstration. The timing could not be better: With well-known chess grandmaster turned democracy advocate Gary Kasparov behind bars in the run up to the election, Putin had one less annoying figure to worry about. Kasparov, of course, knows that a rigged match cannot be won. But he has tried nonetheless, ignoring the arbitrary repercussions that would follow his political activism...