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...showdown that made him an American hero. Soon after, however, Fischer's life degenerated from triumph to farce. He joined the fringe Worldwide Church of God, then abruptly left it. He grew increasingly vocal about his anti-Semitic views, despite the fact that his own mother was Jewish. He quit playing competitive chess, and was stripped of his title in 1975 for failing to face challenger Anatoly Karpov...
...ancient Greek who roamed Western Europe, Mexico and the Dominican Republic during the 1960s recruiting foreign agents and collecting intelligence on the Soviets. Goss, 65, once told TIME that he had hoped to spend a career at the CIA, but a serious staph infection in 1970 forced him to quit fieldwork, and he left the agency for a new life in Florida that eventually led him to politics and the House of Representatives. Three decades later, the former secret agent is poised to return to the clandestine world, now that President George W. Bush has nominated Goss as director...
...Cipel and wouldn't make him available for interviews. After it was revealed that Cipel couldn't even obtain federal clearance to see top-secret data because he is a foreigner, he left the homeland-security post for an undefined "special counsel" job in McGreevey's office. He quit state government altogether in August...
...These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc"--and it was Noonan who helped the first George Bush find his voice in 1988. Her notion of a "kinder, gentler America" was picked up by Bush to soften the G.O.P.'s image after eight years of Reagan conservatism. Noonan then quit politics and went on to fame as a pundit and author...
...land, and entered the annals of the sporting greats. Not every ending in the Games' first week was so happy. The Greeks wanted to move beyond the embarrassment of the missed drug tests (and mysterious, possibly staged, motorcycle accident) of sprinters Konstantinos Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. Both quit the Games before the i.o.c. could kick them out. It seemed time to concentrate on questions of a purely sporting nature: When would Britain finally join the rest of the big countries and win its first gold? (Answer: Day 7, when cyclist Chris Hoy won the men's 1-km track time...