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...Security Council focused on the issue of relief aid. But there was no consensus among council members on peacekeeping - hardly surprising, since most established armies would have no greater enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make...
...Cave paintings, all pre-Tuareg, don't interest the tribesmen. But Keenan says they should. After all, what wealthy Westerner wouldn't pay to view ancient paintings in a gallery carved by the elements? So he and his entourage roam, from the black-and-white chessboard flats of Amadror?"I had no idea Nature could be so kitsch"?to the stone steeples of the Tin Ghergoh range, searching for fading ocher smears of mountain goats and jellyfish. Much of the art has been damaged, some by Islamic fundamentalists on a Taliban-like crusade to chisel the world into compliance with...
...leadership is the deployment of international observers to monitor the implementation of the Mitchell Report. The U.S. endorsed the Palestinian proposal three weeks ago - but only on the condition that both sides accept such observers. The Israelis immediately ruled out the possibility, but the issue remains on the diplomatic chessboard. Renewed clashes, such as Sunday's fracas on the Temple Mount, would certainly keep diplomatic pressure alive on the observer issue, particularly because the fate of Jerusalem's holy sites is a pan-Arab concern. Clashes in Jerusalem inflame anger on the streets of Arab capitals, whose regimes are then...
...voyage, Cuthbert encountered an equally bizarre weather phenomenon, known as microbursts. "It was like being caught on a giant chessboard, with these black thunderheads advancing toward us over the water," he recalls. It seemed to defy the laws of nature. "It was so inky black inside I couldn't see the end of the boat," says Cuthbert, "not until lightning started cracking down on us like a whip...
...parallels between Luzhin’s life and his talent are physicalized in stunning landscapes that give the film’s Russian, Italian and American settings the feel of ornate life-size chessboards. There is, in fact, literally an ornate life-size chessboard right in front of the site of the chess tournament. Most of these landscapes, however, are much subtler—black and white tiled floors across which men and women walk deliberate patterns, rows of pillars arranged like pawns and carefully arrayed statues of kings, queens and their retinues of minions...