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...peacekeepers are called. The blue helmet closest to the scene, an earnest Frenchman (Georges Siatidis), wants to do something and disobeys orders and moves in. His superior (Simon Callow) prefers to play chess and dally with his mistress at headquarters. Meanwhile, a TV journalist (Katrin Cartlidge) hustles out to the trench and starts broadcasting live reports to the world about the anguish she finds there. Naturally, many of her competitors join...
...being held on a leash by bin Laden. Printed on it in Dari and Pashto, the country's two languages: "Who really runs the Taliban?" On the back, with the inscription "Expel the foreign rulers and live in peace," bin Laden moves pawns with Taliban faces on a chessboard. (Chess, which the Taliban also banned, was once enormously popular in Afghanistan...
...thoughtfully as people bitch and moan—as people tend to do at 14 Plympton. Unafraid of anything and everyone, Antoinette’s the kind of woman who befriends the drunk clown at Whitney’s before taking on another bar regular in a game of chess. She thrives on interaction and her energy is positively contagious...
...drummer who led the swinging Savoy Sultans to the New York Jazz Society's Best Big Band award in 1980 and two Grammy nominations for Best Album; in Orlando. Francis was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 1993. DIED. TONY MILES, 46, Britain's first chess grand master, who was ranked for a decade among the top 10 in the game; in his sleep, in Birmingham, England. Miles, confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. died. Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, a world record-setting pole vaulter who was named...
...named for Patrick Wolff, a grandmaster who played on both sides of the Harvard-Yale chess tournament. He spent two years as an undergraduate at Harvard and two years as an undergraduate at Yale...