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...Fort Dixon, where she was employed as a quartermaster—“not what you think of as a good job for a college graduate,” she says—and then followed her husband to Camp Stuart, Ga., where she worked in a pawn shop...
...bestowed by international support a war in Iraq could lead to more extremism in Middle Eastern nations, many of which are already tinderboxes of bad governance and extremism. U.S. attempts to form a stable government in Iraq would be opposed by militants from all sides, making the country a pawn in the showdown between western liberalism and Islamic extremism—hardly a desirable fate for the Iraqi people...
...Fine, but why Elvis? Not just because he was rock's first superstar, but also because as the pawn of Parker his manager, he was the last pop idol who did not control his own career. In 1956 he released his first million-seller, "Heartbreak Hotel," and became the biggest music idol since Sinatra, and loads weirder. Then, too soon, he was devoured by Hollywood's make-over machinery, steered into a rut that would lead to nearly three dozen low-mediocre films. Parker's determination to slip Elvis into the old showbiz mainstream effectively neutered the emperor of sexual...
...according to Kirshner, a man who “treated you like you were the next best thing. He had a manner of treating you, a totally powerless pawn, as an equal, even though you weren?...
...game started off promising enough. The opening was a Queen's Gambit Declined, and Kramnik achieved a position in which he had an "isolated queen pawn" - a foot soldier in the center of the board with no comrades on the two adjacent files. In the past, Kramnik has been a master at exploiting such positions. Although an isolated pawn can become weak in the endgame, because it cannot be defended by another pawn, it is often an asset in the middlegame when the open files adjacent to it can serve as staging ramps for a strong attack. But Kramnik never...