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...Kramnik's supporters who watched Game 6 unfold over nearly four hours were in for an emotional roller-coaster ride. Before any moves were played, the champion was all smiles and his handlers suggested that he would easily win the $1-million match by milking his then one-game advantage and simply drawing the last three games. The Fritz team insisted that it would not be so easy for the world champion to play the calculating monster to a draw. "We are going to go down fighting," said Frederic Friedel, "he'll be nervous after [his loss in] game...
...ship 5,000 to 10,000 machines a year; this year, Stern Pinball is shipping "significantly less." Still, says Stern, "it's been a growing year. We're very happy with it. There's room for one company." His biggest hit this year was a new machine called Roller Coaster Tycoon, though the fact that it is based on a computer game probably helped. Sleeping with the enemy may be what it takes to survive as the last guy standing in a field once ruled by names like Gottlieb, Williams and Bally...
...special, painful place in his memory. "There's a reason they call it break-bone fever," says McGirk, who contracted the virus in New Delhi and suffered for three weeks. "You feel like there's this deep, painful itching happening inside your bones. You're on this horrible roller-coaster ride of hot spells and chills, like you're being shaken around. It just racks your body...
Even at the best of times, Northern Ireland's peace process resembles a roller-coaster ride. But the lurch it took last week was so unexpected that many riders may be thrown off the track. On Friday, police showed up at Stormont, the seat of Ulster's government, and went straight to the offices of Sinn Fein, a key partner in the province's power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major...
...eventual end to the embargo. And ironically, Florida, the seat of the embargo's staunchest Cuban exile support, was the most heavily represented - at least by business if not by Gov. Jeb Bush, who had publicly chastised Ventura for attending the event. "This trip has been an emotional roller coaster for me," said Carlos de Quesada, 34, the son of Cuban exiles who represents a Tampa livestock shipment firm, Cuba-Florida Cattlemen, and who was himself making his first visit to Cuba. "But I and my Cuban-American friends back home, we all think this is a good thing...