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Kasparov, who has reigned as world champion since 1985, reportedly received $36,000 to play in this northern city. He finished runner-up with 5.5 points. Former Soviet world champion Anatoly Karpov ended up with five points...
...things once again going too smoothly for Clinton? At 45, he has a decade in the statehouse behind him. After Mario Cuomo took himself out of the race for the White House, Clinton became his party's media-anointed front runner. He may soon discover that the worst thing that can happen to a candidate is to be too far ahead too soon. The political press corps, which prides itself on how quickly it can knock the stuffing out of those who would run for President, has gone into a deep swoon over his candidacy, from which it will sooner...
...lucky to have someone like Oliver Knowlton, TIME's editorial operations director, to keep the pace. An avid runner (he logs 70 miles a week and has competed in 12 marathons; best time: 2:30:16), Oliver is the keeper of THE SCHEDULE -- a color-coded flow chart that tells our editors, writers, art directors and designers when their individual tasks should be complete each week. But the world of journalism has a funny habit of not cooperating with | anybody's flow charts. As a result, for the past 15 months -- through Desert Storm and the Soviet coup...
Against all odds, Carey emerged victorious last week in the biggest election in U.S. labor history. Carey, 55, rolled up 49% of the vote to beat two insiders, including R.V. Durham, the front runner, who had been handpicked by the union's bosses and backed by a campaign war chest of $2 million. Although only a quarter of the Teamsters' 1.6 million members participated in the vote, the first in which the rank and file was allowed to vote directly for the president, many observupset victory as a solid mandate to clean house...
...leader of the nation's best defense, already has won the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy as the top lineman in the country. But no pure defensive player has ever won the Heisman. The best finish by a defender was in 1980, when Pittsburgh's Hugh Green was runner-up to George Rogers of South Carolina...