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...Woodpushers around the world who were watching Game 8 on the Web were disappointed that Kramnik, the pre-match favorite, did not crush the silicon beast. Chess players were angry at the Russian grand master for calling a truce without a fight. "There should be a new rule," said Tony Rook, host of the Web site http://chess.fm. "If you draw before move 30, you're barred from chess for life...
...sheer crush of activity is what makes this refinance wave different from most others, leading harried bankers to make the kinds of mistakes that those of us lacking Ph.D.s rarely catch. More than ever, it's important to work with someone you trust - a mortgage broker, or possibly a lawyer to represent you - or do your own due diligence before settlement...
...market with confidence this spring, but after months of rejection, he decided on what he calls "guerrilla tactics." Ruppen, 45, milled around a midtown Manhattan sidewalk in shirtsleeves, spectacles and a sandwich board with 20 other jobless executives last week. Standing firm amid the lunch-break crush, he shouted, "We want work...
...most women's wish lists come spring, but the silver mesh bags at Fendi and the silver shoes at Prada most certainly will be. And for those wanting to get in on the craze for surfwear spurred by the U.S. film about women surfers, Blue Crush, the sweet little neoprene skirt by Louis Vuitton may be the way to go. The spring 2003 fashion shows may not tell us much about what is going to happen in the world - or even much about what we're feeling in these wildly unpredictable days - but they did tell us that creativity...
...revolutionary upheaval," and "Most Wanted" posters were splashed on street corners. Authorities boasted that the criminals would find nowhere to hide. At first, the pursuit of the student leaders seemed a surreal exercise in totalitarian theater, a face-saving exercise by the party elders who had ordered troops to crush the democracy movement. But it was soon clear that this was deadly serious, as Zhang Boli reports in Escape from China, his harrowing account of two years as a fugitive from communist justice...