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...seem. Pressing issues and a perceived need for greater female involvement can lead a woman to the voting booth, she says, but they can't necessarily make her vote a certain way. Issues, race, ethnicity and geography influence voter decisions, and gender is "just one piece on the chessboard...
...assault by Kerrey violated earlier promises to let the issue lie. But his camp thought it had to shake the chessboard. Kerrey has virtually no chance of winning Georgia or any of the large states up for grabs next week, including Texas and Florida. So his ploy is to drive down Clinton's numbers while pursuing a "delegate accrual" strategy -- targeting specific districts in the hope of picking up small blocs of delegates in many states. He also looks west, striving for a base that will keep him in the contest until the final primaries in June. When Kerrey...
When it dawned on MacArthur that he too was being abandoned, he spoke grandly of his destiny. "They will never take me alive," he said as he slipped a loaded pistol into his pocket. But MacArthur was just a pawn on an enormous political chessboard. Australia, threatened by the Japanese advances, demanded the return of three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...still alive. Reuters quoted an unidentified official in Beirut as saying an American and a Briton, possibly envoy Terry Waite, would be released "for certain" within a week. That sounded as though the end game may now be under way in earnest. But nothing on the Middle East chessboard is for certain...
...bans all Chinese food, language and customs from the house and abandons her stepson to regular beatings at the hands of neighborhood bullies who call him by the humiliating name China Boy. Kai gets little help from his father, who "was in an untenable position, forked on the cultural chessboard where the white squares of intellectual China met the hard black industrial squares of the West." But the boy does find allies in a black family, a Hispanic mechanic, a Chinese scholar who is an old family friend and a trio of boxing coaches at the Y.M.C.A. With their help...