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...ground trembled and the sky darkened with clouds of dust as the volcanic eruptions began. Startled, the animals gathered at the water hole?hyenas, saber-toothed tigers, giant elephants ?took off in a great stampede. Joining in the flight were small creatures that though they looked like apes, walked upright. Before long, the rain of volcanic ash had completely buried the site and all signs of the life around...
...skips across the living room to where her father is playing chess. "Watch this," he says, stabbing furiously at a keyboard. He is 26 moves into a grim queen's gambit saber duel with Chess Challenger, a $275 computerized overachiever built by Fidelity Electronics, Ltd. The machine is playing at the highest of its three levels, claimed in some ads to equal 1650, the rating of an average club player (the estimate is too generous). It has occurred to the father that it could be a great improvement, in the interest of strict fairness, if the computer...
...another. One particularly gruesome scene depicts Levanter seeking vengeance against a hotel clerk, whose betrayal of one of Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though it is about violence," Kosinski maintains...
Ellis replaced an ailing Graham at number three saber. "I made the change 24 hours before the competition. I felt Russ (Ellis) was fencing very well the last few weeks. His attitude was more than positive. He did a fantastic job. He wasn't exposed to much competition all season, but missed by one bout to qualify for the finals...
Zivkovic announced yesterday that Jennings at saber, Major at foil and Simmons at epee will represent Harvard at the NCAA Championships at Notre Dame University March...