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...Honestly, I think TCF screwed up," wrote TTLGBC co-coordinator Elizabeth M. Fischer in an e-mail message. "Now they're all saying that Julie was denied a leadership position because she no longer agreed with their interpretation of Scripture. The truth is that they no longer want her as a leader because she's queer...
...been the bane of chess players. While in forced isolation in the gulag, Natan Sharansky played chess against himself in his head. It kept him sane. (It had the added benefit, he likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always won," he recalls cheerfully.) And Bobby Fischer has been playing chess with few people other than himself ever since he quit as world champion and practically disappeared 25 years ago. But then, Fischer has the look of a paranoid schizophrenic...
...Prague to unveil a statue of the first President in the castle square. Given all the ceremony, Albright is sure to be asked if she would like to follow in Masaryk's footsteps. "It is not impossible that they will talk about this," says Pavel Fischer, chief policy adviser to President VACLAV HAVEL...
...time slapping down the E.U. choice, asserting that Koch-Weser is a lightweight who lacks the leadership skills to run an organization that acts as the world's financial fire brigade. E.U. leaders call it an another attempt by the U.S. to control the global economy - American Stanley Fischer, the IMF's interim chief, is Koch-Weser's primary competitor for the post. But America is not the only Fischer fan - an unusual alliance of Arab and African countries has thrown its weight behind Fischer's candidacy...
...chief James Graff. "There are so many areas where the U.S. looks as though it's trying to assert unilateral power. It doesn't need another one." While Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has asked the E.U. not to take the Koch-Weser rebuke as an attempt to keep Fischer in power, it appears Schroeder will have to resign himself to the fact that the next IMF chief will not be a German. "There's always the chance with a situation like this," notes Graff, "that if they can't decide on a candidate from a major country, they...