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...these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fairies in the Cafeteria | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...grand masters who were watching said that it may be psychologically difficult for him to recover from such a colossal mistake. In the next game, they said, he'll waste time and energy second-guessing even obvious moves. Although Kramnik hung himself in this game, the machine deserves credit for putting him under so much stress that he collapsed. "Nobody sets up stuff like that Vampire," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Brains in Bahrain' report: Kramnik is All Too Human | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

There’s nothing really apolitical about Heaney or his “longed for tidal wave of justice,” just something unpartisan. And while Heaney might not rock the vote, his words are inspiring enough to have hung (as they did) on Clinton‘s White House study walls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting Along Seamus-ly | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...critics. The $338 million structures themselves, arguably over-designed and potentially underutilized, have about them the whiff of an architect trying too hard to be clever and a government straining to reinvigorate a slumping economy. The walls of the Vikas M. Gore-led project are lined with silk and hung with tapestries made from human hair, our guide explained, before helpfully adding that a Concorde jetliner could fit in Esplanade's 2,000 seat theater. All this is an eager government's way of saying it cares about art. But the best and brightest who manage Singapore have run that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cultural Capital? | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...attracted off-stage trouble?charges of wrecking cars and assaulting photographers?with the same magnetism that sets his fans screaming their lust at him. The aura of Celebrity Bad Boy has hung on the kid like the "Kick Me" sign on the back of a high-school loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Time for a Rebel | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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