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...with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly in the Philippines, Japan, Switzerland and Hungary, and claims to have quit playing chess in favor of a game of his own creation, Fischerandom chess, in which traditional playing pieces are put in mostly random places on the board. Last week immigration authorities took the renegade gamester into custody at Tokyo's Narita Airport...
Spurning the flamboyant, womanizing lifestyle associated with many F1 drivers, Schumacher lives quietly in Switzerland with his wife and their two children. He's intense, working out up to four hours a day; last year he won the Monaco Grand Prix hours after learning that his mother had died. Jordan says that by now, none of the established drivers can beat Schumacher: "Psychologically, Michael has got inside their heads...
...little intimidating,” Shoemaker said. “They announce your name and you’re kind of like, ‘Oh God,’ next to the girl from Switzerland. It’s like...there’s no pressure, but you don’t want to do poorly...
...Since 9/11 the U.S. has held direct talks with Iran-and through intermediaries including Britain, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia-concerning the fate of scores of al-Qaeda that Iran has acknowleded are in the country, including an unspecified number of senior leaders, whom one senior U.S. official called al-Qaeda's "management council". The U.S. as well as the Saudis have unsuccessfully sought the repatriation of this group, which is widely thought to include Saad bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, as well of other key al-Qaeda figures...
...Wimbledon last year, Swiss tennis officials presented him with Juliette, a prize cow. But you don't have to be a tennis star to own a fine Swiss bovine. Nina, Beate and Britta are big brown cows that spend their days grazing the picturesque Alpine meadows above Brienz, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland-and they're for rent...