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...Wire sometimes oversells this point, as when D'Angelo teaches his crew members chess to show that they're pawns in a game (chess metaphors are always a reliable DIDACTICISM ahead sign). But it slowly develops into an engrossing look at the methodical nature of police work and the limits of individualism. Cop dramas are dispatches on America's relationship to authority, and like The Shield, The Wire is a daring and timely one. We responded to 9/11 with a national narrative of teamwork: unite behind our institutions, and let's roll. (Waco? Diallo? Old news.) The rhetoric of good...
...begins when Talcott realizes that his father's case isn't quite closed. At the funeral a sinister billionaire confronts him about some mysterious "arrangements" the judge made before his death, of which Talcott knows nothing. A white chess pawn--the judge was a chess fiend--is delivered by an unknown messenger. The priest who delivered Oliver's eulogy turns up dead, his body grotesquely tortured (Carter might want to tell his kids to avert their eyes at this point). As in all good mysteries, the key to the present lies in the past, and to find it, Talcott must...
...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...
...only all-nighter I ever pulled at Harvard was with Bill,” Sethna fondly recalls. “We played pong and computer chess all night at the computer facility on one of the older computers that had been put aside for just that purpose...
...companies that send spam, or unsolicited junk e-mail. Going even further in this latest global conflict, the E.U.'s new privacy law bans all firms from sending spam. BOTTOM LINES "No one is quite sure of the rules. Sometimes it's not even clear whether we are playing chess or perhaps Monopoly." Werner Seifert, CEO of Deutsche Börse, on merging Europe's exchanges "These are excellent results." Chris Gent, CEO of Vodafone, on the annual report that included a record $19.8 billion loss "The cult of the guru analyst is less prominent here." Howard Davies, chairman...