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...catchy, but the story, based on this year's championship confrontations in Moscow, can hardly be better theater than the real thing. Last weekend, on the stage of the opulent Tchaikovsky Hall, after two months of acrimony and audacity on and off the board, after jitterily watching his obdurate foe almost come from behind and after being driven all the way to the final game in the series, Gary Kasparov at 22 became the sport's youngest world champion. He rang down the curtain on Anatoli Karpov's decade-long top billing with a decisive, 42-move victory...
...Whether they're consumers or producers, shareholders or voters, laborers or arts mavens, citizens of the world or school children, Australians can feel the dragon's heat. China is at once an old friend, a potential foe, a buyer, a seller, an alien nation and a muse. It's the face and spirit of globalization: Australia's distant factory floor and an endless market for the country's minerals, gas, technology and brain power. China's soft power is seeping into Australia's cities, suburbs and remote corners. It's changed the nation, and continues to change...
...West and provided unfailing moral guideposts for his countrymen; of complications of arteriosclerosis; in Hürtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic, and began writing novels of protest against war (The Train Was on Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went on to describe and deride the materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown...
British Historian Anthony Mockler calls his book Haile Selassie's War because it thrusts the wily, ambitious little (5 ft. 4 in.) Emperor onto center stage as the noble foe of Fascism. In fact, the war began almost 40 years earlier, when an imperial army of 16,000 Italians engaged the forces of the Ethiopian Emperor Men-elik II at the Battle of Adowa and suffered a humiliating defeat...
This confidence will serve the Crimson well in the weeks to come. Following the match against conference foe St. Francis this Friday—rescheduled from March 12—Harvard will began preparations for the EIVA playoffs...