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...conference committee with the House - which wants to build a wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border, criminalize all illegal immigrants in the U.S., and dramatically increase the penalties against those who help them, from businesses to churches. Looking several moves ahead in a game of legislative chess, Reid feared that the conference would produce something that looked more like the House bill, which currently has no amnesty provisions for making current illegals citizens, than the Senate version...
...snaked bicycle paths, docks and terraces. In Zhongshan, Yu's shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, has quickly become a local landmark. On a recent weekday afternoon, the park was full. Toddlers climbed happily over pebbled railroad tracks, men played chess on a platform surrounded by tall reeds, a bride posed for a portrait amid some (deliberately) unraked leaves, and two vanloads of officials on a study tour listened to a guide talk about environmental protection...
...Beat the Chess Master. At chess...
...other mechanical issues that can give them that small edge. In fact, they may be more necessary than ever. The new car has a redesigned fuel bladder that will carry four to five fewer gallons of gasoline, which will add to the number of pit stops and complicate the chess game of refueling and tire changes that crew chiefs in every race have to play...
...least he has the other members of System of a Down on the bus with him to keep him company. In the video for “Lonely Day,” the band members lounge mournfully around their tour bus, fiddling with a cunningly-product-placed iPod, playing chess, and gazing out the windows. They don’t seem terribly lonely, but they do seem rather bored. Why they thought people would be entertained by watching the band travel by luxury bus is hard to say. As if to compensate for the dullness of the band?...