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Tomorrow, the felicitously monikered Goren In a Box (GIB) bridge software will take on the world's best bridge players at the 1998 World Bridge Championships in Lille, France. Is this Deep Blue redux? Or simply bridge too far? Will this be the end of mankind's bridge superiority? Only Omar Sharif knows for sure...
...sophisticated--but still far-fetched--level, George Steiner's controversial novel, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., argued, as Rosenbaum says, "that the tolerance, the secret approval, the permission [Hitler] received from the rest of the world to exterminate the Jews can be explained by the universal hatred mankind has for the Jewish 'invention of conscience,' for the torment inflicted on man by the ethical demands of Moses, Jesus, and Marx...
...Next One." Isaacson concluded, "The ultimate goal of democracy and freedom...is...to nurture the dignity and values of each individual." To my mind that idea is more than an American political idea. It is the promise to obliterate racial and religious bigotry, hence to end most of mankind's current agonies. It is the mutual spiritual purpose for all human life. OLIVER ANDRESEN Schaumburg...
...catalyst who set in motion a series of interconnected events that gave a revolutionary twist to the century's last two decades and helped mankind end the millennium on a note of hope and confidence. The triumph of capitalism, the almost universal acceptance of the market as indispensable to prosperity, the collapse of Soviet imperialism, the downsizing of the state on nearly every continent and in almost every country in the world--Margaret Thatcher played a part in all those transformations, and it is not easy to see how any would have occurred without...
Borders are mankind's way of measuring power. They expand and shrink, bend and break at the touch of human ambition. But as the century's empires came and left, life kept up its relentless pace...