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...Palillo, but don't expect a quick knockout. Diamond showed Sting-like stamina by trotting out puberty jokes for more than a decade over three "Saved By the Bell" series. And he's also a patient strategist, as he displayed in the instructional home video "Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess." We're thinking upset city. Fearless Prediction: Decision for Diamond, who then calls out Urkel Links: • PEOPLE catches up with Ron Palillo • The Onion interviews Dustin Diamond...
...Arab plan agreed upon by all Arab countries. The U.S. acknowledges it as a good move toward peace. Yet the Israelis and Palestinians continue to receive direct and indirect aid to buy weaponry from Saudi Arabia and the U.S. The Israeli and Palestinian people are pawns in a chess game of oil supply and demand between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. DOUG SNEDDEN Ottawa...
...machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to rephrase their questions more logically. --TIME, April...
...those of neighboring countries and to convince Europe that the sanctions are wrong and pointless. He made a rapprochement with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia at the Arab summit in March that he hopes will quiet any regional enthusiasm to join an anti-Saddam coalition. He is playing a fresh chess match with the U.N. on weapons inspections. If he can get more favorable terms, he'll probably let them resume. That would undercut European eagerness for a war on Iraq...
...Pagan is low season for good reason. The relentless sun bakes its temple-strewn plain into a shimmering illusion of a chess game?if chess had 2,217 pieces, rather than 34. At midday even mad dogs take refuge, though not straw-hatted tourists on five-day whirlwind tours of Burma shuttling through their checklists of temples in air-conditioned comfort. The heat has its benefits, however. Summer is the time of flowers: thick bougainvillaea blooms in shockingly bright pink, jacarandas litter the paths with purple petals, and flame trees force starbursts of red against whitewashed temple walls...