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...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...
...said, "I won $4,000 playing a video game!" Since then, Wendel has been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, and all over the U.S. and Asia. Outfits like the CPL are bent on becoming big-time spectator-sports leagues like the NFL or the NBA. After all, Wendel says, football and basketball "used to be just games too. But now they're a way of life." --By Lev Grossman
...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...
...session was hardly a breakthrough, but the outcome, a slight easing of East-West tensions, was nonetheless welcome. When Secretary of State George Shultz emerged last week from the red brick residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Finland overlooking Helsinki harbor, walking in affable fashion alongside him was a smiling newcomer to the game of superpower politics, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, 57, appointed only a month ago. The two men paused briefly to exchange chitchat with the help of interpreters and to pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart...
...goes far beyond Britain. The tax codes of many E.U. member states treat domestic entities differently from foreign ones, and they could also be on the hook for huge back claims. Indeed, at the oral hearing of the case in Luxembourg on Feb. 1, representatives of seven E.U. governments - Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden - turned up to argue against Marks & Spencer. Only the European Commission backed the firm. Germany could be one of the biggest losers. Isabelle Kronawitter, an economist at HVB Bank in Munich, calculates that if the court upholds the decision and makes...