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DIED. Edward Lasker, 95, German-born chess champion who won the United States Open title five times between 1916 and 1921, and who wrote several chess books, including the classic Modern Chess Strategy; in New York City...
Cohen is a poet and his first book was a collection of poetry (Of Sons and Seasons), But his poetry does more than influence his life, it infects his prose. His analogies are vivid. He describes the arms race as "a combination of poker and chess. The movement of fire-breathing, life-annihilating pawns on a global board of a spinning planet." At another point he says, "the news accounts of congressional travel plans rubbed like shards of glass in an oozing wound." His fear of losing his campaign is "a gray moth of doubt that had ballooned into...
...shuttle bus strike that never was began on Tuesday, when a group of drivers, dissatisfied with a new schedule, work hours, and wages, decided to stage a game of economic chess...
...entrance. The inner door is chained and padlocked. Although the occupiers claim to have about 400 people inside, a first-hand head count put that number at closer to 100. In a solemn mood, the peasants and factory workers sit around chatting idly, reading newspapers, playing cards or chess. At night bedrolls and mattresses are laid out side by side on the floor...
That eclecticism helps to differentiate Ma from other prodigies. He likes to do calligraphy and play chess. He is reading Don Quixote. He brings the same sense of exploration to the cello repertoire: he has performed such oddities as the concerti of Dmitri Kabalevsky and Gerald Finzi, plus his own transcription of the Brahms D minor violin sonata...