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...What is emerging is a political chess game: Already, some in the GOP, no doubt concerned at the specter of Clinton continuing to dominate the Washington landscape, are urging Bush to consider a pardon. "I would pardon [Clinton]," Republican senator Orrin Hatch told Fox News Sunday. "I think it's time to put this to bed." And while the senator's interest in a pardon is likely based in political self-interest - how better, after all, to finally clear Clinton from the national radar - his message is not easily ignored. (Hatch to Ray: The GOP has lost its bloodlust...
...there is Parker's pal Dizzy Gillespie, who said Bird was "the other half of my heartbeat," a formidable spirit and great artist who tried, and failed, to save Parker from the demons that drove and devoured him. Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was chess. Miles Davis, who beat back his inner darkness and took jazz to the peak of its last great popularity. Thelonious Monk, a generative spirit of compulsive genius, who applied a kind of circular geometry to the keyboard and gave jazz new contours. Billie Holiday, the beautiful desolation angel, the most...
...SURVIVOR (CBS) When 16 people battled on hot Pulau Tiga for a cool million, the "snakes and rats" proved Sartre right: Hell is other people. The biggest prime-time soap since Dallas was an addictively tacky social chess game, full of societal metaphors and water-cooler fodder. It achieved everything good TV (and bad TV) should...
...VLADIMIR KRAMNIK In the chess world it's flattering to be known as Supernerd, and that is what they call the man who ended fellow Russian and former mentor Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign as world champ. Not a sport, you say? Kramnik, 25, quit smoking and dropped 20 lbs. to prep for the match...
...early childhood, when this belief was still relatively intact, I reached the point in mental development where the world becomes not a place of magic and miracles, but a rule governed game, like chess or checkers. This slow transformation of the way that children perceive the world comes from many environmental factors. In my case Scooby Doo, with its scion of rationality in Velma, demonstrated time and time again that no matter how scary the monster, no matter how improbable the events, there was always a "logical explanation," while Shaggy and Scooby's (Zoinks!) belief in the supernatural was always...