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This performance showed that Fischer is still capable of all the boorishness that mesmerized his friends and enemies two decades ago. If anything, he has grown even more offensive. Rumors have circulated for years that Fischer had grown virulently anti-Semitic; his mother, from whom he has been estranged in the past, is Jewish. So up he pops while the world watches, defending himself against charges of anti-Semitism on a technicality ("I am definitely not anti-Arab, O.K.?") while castigating Zionism, berating the U.N. and accusing Karpov and Gary Kasparov, the current chess world champion, of fixing title matches...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...
That leaves wide open the question of who could possibly have entered the house unnoticed and set it ablaze. During the trial, Riner's attorney developed an unsubstantiated theory pointing the finger at a young man who dated William Fischer's older daughter. The defense claimed the boy was so distressed that the Fischers made him cut back on overnight visits once the baby was born that he devised a horrific plan of revenge. An independent investigator will re-examine the case...
...Other Twain scholars made some intriguing discoveries about the writer's personal affairs. Victor Fischer and Michael Frank of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, said some soon-to-be published letters show that in 1869, Twain, at 33, had launched a campaign to convince Olivia Langdon, 23, that his wanderlust would cease if she married him. Wrote Twain: "It is my strong conviction that, married to you, I would never desire to roam again while I lived." Despite her reservations, Langdon finally relented. Twain triumphantly wrote to his family, "She said she never could...