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...Monica Lewinsky saga opens with more volleys from all sides in what has clearly become a three-cornered battle. Clinton's lawyers attacked Ken Starr; Starr continued his assault on Clinton; and Lewinsky's lawyer played the middle against both ends, by charging that poor Monica is but "a pawn in their game." Writing exclusively in TIME, William Ginsburg reserves the most venom for Starr's legal team, which he portrays as an incompetent crew who took the wrong evidence from Lewinsky's apartment and went into a frenzy over the Drudge Report. Worse, Ginsburg says, is their...
...right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates, who nonetheless knew enough to call the G.O.P. a pawn of the religious right...
...despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart of the bombing in which McVeigh was a mere pawn and the restriction on using the FBI Inspector General's scathing report on the FBI crime lab. McVeigh's lawyers have until July 7 to file motions asking for a new trial, but that is merely the beginning of a long appeals process that likely will take this case...
...article I wrote for TIME last year after my victorious match against IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer in Philadelphia, I expressed my surprise and amazement at seeing a new kind of intelligence. I referred to Game 1, in which the computer's decision to sacrifice a pawn, based strictly on the machine's calculations, coincided with what a human would have done using human logic. Thus I stepped into a discussion of whether artificial intelligence has to be an exact copy of human thinking procedures or whether we should judge intelligence by the end result. I viewed the match with...
Lastly, a concern which is perhaps of more relevance to Americans, is the issue of how Hong Kong should enter the relations between the U.S. and China. Should Hong Kong merely be a pawn on the U.S.-China chess board? Or does Hong Kong deserve its own game...