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...determining the best player on earth normally crop up only once every three years, the phenomenon of two such face-offs commencing during the same week left rank-and-file devotees with divided loyalties and confusion aplenty. On the one hand, the Karpov-Timman contest bore the imprimatur of FIDE (pronounced FEE-day), the Federation Internationale des Echecs, the powerful governing body that has been running world championship competitions since 1948. In the past, FIDE's authority would have been enough to convince chess fans that Karpov-Timman was the match to follow. Unfortunately, Karpov and Timman had both been...
...were Kasparov and Short not playing for the FIDE world title in Zwolle? Because these two, who seem genuinely to dislike each other, had nonetheless banded together to mount an unprecedented challenge to the reigning chess establishment. When FIDE decreed last February that the Kasparov-Short match would take place in Manchester, England, for a purse of about $1.8 million, Short claimed angrily that he had not been consulted. He was unhappy with the choice of Manchester, hardly a high-profile or glamorous setting, and he didn't like the prize money either. He phoned Kasparov and said...
...taking place at hundreds of sites around the country. In Glenwood Landing, New York, the EPA found 235 parties responsible, including not just major corporations but also a film-developing shop and a pizza parlor. One of those parties was Pat Genzale of Franklin Square, New York, a bona fide victim of Superfund's liti-gious excess. Genzale, who was going broke trying to comply with EPA orders to remove waste legally dumped 37 years ago on his family company's land, contracted to have some of the waste hauled to Ohio. The contractor dumped it instead at Glenwood Landing...
This all should sound familiar. The Jerk, a would-be humor magazine, was preempted by a Lampoon parody last year--and the real thing never materialized. Bona fide Jerk editors had claimed their magazine would have been serious humor. But how do you make fun of something that's already self-parody...
...Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow's No. 1 pop hit, Informer, a tale about offing an undercover snitch, to know the man's music is bona fide. There's not a snowball's chance that Snow will melt like...