Word: contest
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...point margin, voters across the internet opted for the Sicilian defense earlier this week in an online match against Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The contest, which Microsoft grandiosely bills "Kasparov vs. the World," began Monday in New York when Kasparov moved a giant Pawn to E4 on a 400 square-foot chessboard in Bryant Park. Back in cyberspace the World, aided by a panel of chess champions hired by Microsoft, had 24 hours to respond. The Microsoft Network, which is hosting the match, did not say how many people voted in the first round, though the company said...
...contest the peacekeepers have little chance of winning. Many trauma-racked refugees, still wary of Serbian aggression, are sure to look to the K.L.A. for protection. The peace pact calls for the "demilitarization" of the K.L.A.--but not for its disarming. So the rebels will keep their small arms, the tools of choice for guerrilla fighters. Meanwhile, the U.N. will shoulder the heavy burden of setting up a Kosovar police force. Its first challenge will be to stamp out the K.L.A.'s revolutionary zeal. Albright labored to assure the 200,000 Serbs in Kosovo that the K.L.A. had pledged...
First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
...when his life took its fateful turn, Andrei Sakharov was not yet known to the world. He was 41 years old, a decorated Soviet physicist developing atomic weapons of terrifying power deep in the heart of the Soviet Union. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were locked in a frenzied contest for nuclear superiority. That September the Kremlin was to conduct two massive atmospheric tests of bombs that Sakharov had helped design. Sakharov feared the radioactive fallout from the second test would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. He had also come to believe that another nuclear demonstration would only accelerate...
...Still, Harvard won three of its last four regular-season games, and drew a home contest versus Central Connecticut State in the first round of the postseason...