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When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper that he will play additional matches there...
...coddles prisoners. "With him you'll get the closest thing to a fair shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration...
...little too neat structurally, its moral and human issues a little too clear-cut: at heart it is old-fashioned melodrama. But Sorkin's dialogue | is spit-shined, and the energy and conviction with which it is staged and played is more than a compensation; it's transformative. And hugely entertaining...
...frustrated first-year student, who asked not to be identified, said he and his roommate try to spit at the Yard's squirrels. The students, who claimed he could spit at pigeons without any problem, said he hasn't been able to hit a squirrel yet, since they are amazingly elusive...
...black hole, we turned on the videos in the dance room, which was soon full of writhing bodies pointing up at the TV screens and saying, "Look! It's Paula Abdul!" Suddenly, there was a break in the music, and frustrated dancers began to jeer, stamp their feet, and spit at anyone who even remotely looked like a host...