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...Lieberman crossover would turn control of the Senate back to the Republicans, a 2008 gain in the Senate by the Dems would force him out of the limelight he so assiduously craves. The reality is that most people see through his machinations. He might consider a crash course in chess before it's checkmate for his political influence. Fred Plemenos Lexington, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Lieberman crossover would turn control of the Senate back to the Republicans, a 2008 gain in the Senate by the Dems would force him out of the limelight he so assiduously craves. The reality is that most people see through his machinations. He might consider a crash course in chess before it's checkmate for his political influence. Fred Plemenos, Lexington, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

Heinsman added that the contest has a large social component to it as well, including tours of Tokyo, a life-size chess board, and undisclosed festivities...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Battle of the Brains' Finalists to Code for Cash | 3/12/2007 | See Source »

...media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front and The Popular Democratic Union, led by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov and Putin's former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov respectively; and of the left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party (NBP), led by a flamboyant writer Eduard Limonov. While the liberal groups call for a return to democratic reform, the violence-prone NBP calls for a revolution. Not unlike the Soviet dissidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russians Protest Putin's Rule | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

...York University professor David Engel likens the correspondence to a blind chess game. The U.S. immigration rules kept changing; the players waited for letters to slowly arrive by mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Otto Frank's Hunt for a Visa | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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