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When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper that he will play additional matches there...
Before he can forgo fiscal stimulus, Clinton "needs clear and convincing evidence that the jobs are coming back, and the reports we've seen so far just aren't enough," Reich explained last week. "It's not just the unemployed we're concerned about, but also the part-timers who want to work full time and the discouraged workers" -- those who have been looking for jobs so long that they have given up and fallen out of the statistics. Clinton voiced the same view, telling reporters, "We are nowhere near to knowing that this short-term recession . . . is over...
...G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party from swerving too far to the right...
Black and Lake contend that they have refrained from lobbying on issues involved in the campaign and have disclosed to campaign lawyers a list of ( clients, financial holdings and prior lobbying activities. Since early summer, both have promised to forgo lobbying the Executive Branch until after the election...
...Skansi and other coaches, there are more immediate concerns as the tournament moves into the single elimination medal round this week. Can anyone stop Lithuania's Sarunas Marciulionis? Will Brazil's Oscar Schmidt ever forgo a three-point shot for a pass to a teammate? Will U.S. forward Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When...