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Same Puzzles; Smaller Pieces. The Warsaw Pact has also broken up, with one former member, Czechoslovakia, splitting into two nations. Another, East Germany, has disappeared from the chessboard. The dirty cold war espionage battles in the middle of Europe have eased dramatically. "The information river is westbound now," says a former officer of the Czechoslovak security forces who is now a private consultant in Prague. "Until 1988, Polish agents were trained in Moscow," says Jerzy Jachowicz, a Warsaw journalist who covers intelligence matters. "Now they are trained in the U.S., France and Britain." That new westward orientation was emphasized last...
...much freedom of movement and prevent the virus from mutating very often. This makes the infection easier to control because the body does not have to recognize and subdue new variations every few months. If researchers could figure out how a survivor can keep such tight control of the chessboard, then perhaps they can find a way to give other patients the same ability. Clinicians might even be able to boost the defenses of people whose immune systems have already suffered serious damage...
...shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they are pawns on a chessboard -- with no grand master in sight...
...firms. Now multinationals such as Seagram and Guinness have moved in: even Monnet's old company was once sold to Germans and then to Britons. "Decision makers in Toronto or Paris do not care whether we live or die," said Forgeron's wife Francine. "We are pawns on the chessboard...
Game 5 ended in pathos. Fischer's position became hopeless. Ten moves after he should have resigned, he moved his queen -- proud, powerful, the lion of the chessboard -- and retreated it to a corner where it cowered for protection behind three lowly pawns. As Jose Zalaquett, a top Chilean amateur player, put it, it was an almost physical retreat, a folding back into the fetal position, awaiting the final blow...