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...insisted on a two-resolution strategy: if the inspectors found Iraq at fault, then the Security Council would consider war. To Washington's dismay, Chirac had the support of the majority of the 15-member Security Council, including Russia. Despite the cajoling of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Vladimir Putin said he was opposed to any resolution allowing the automatic use of force against Saddam. (China, the other veto power, stayed on the fence throughout the debate.) In the end, Bush managed to get a face-saving solution: a single resolution, but the U.S. would give more weight...
...week ago the human world champion was bulldozing the computer, but now Deep Fritz, after today's victory, has evened the score at three points apiece. There are two games left and $1-million is at stake - not to mention the restoration of human dignity. Vladimir Kramnik's fellow grand masters hope that he will win the competition and avenge the loss of the previous world champion, Garry Kasparov, to an IBM supercomputer five years ago. "If he wins, we'll have something to be proud of again," said Alexander Baburin, editor of the Internet chess daily www.chesstoday.net...
...Vladimir Kramnik made the worst blunder of his career and arguably the biggest error ever made by a world chess champion. He lost a knight in a one-move combination on the thirty-fourth move and resigned immediately. It was Deep Fritz's first victory. Although the silicon beast still trails in the eight-game match two games to three, the momentum is now clearly in its favor. Kramnik's play was shaky in the previous game, and here it was unrecognizable. "He had a total hallucination," commented William Paschall, an international master in Massachusetts. "There is just no other...
...stream-water clarity of his descriptions (with the sentence "His socks were white and Van Horned up around his calves," a reference to chronically uncool NBA player Keith Van Horn, Eggers may have enriched the English language by a verb). At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have genuine existential pathos; at their worst they're a little jejune, a pair of Holden Caulfields railing at the phonies. Critics have tarred Eggers with the brush of irony, and You Shall Know Our Velocity seems to be his attempt to cleanse himself in the turpentine of earnestness. "When...
...take effect when sanctions are lifted; France's TotalFinaElf, Spain's Repsol, and Italy's Eni all have Iraqi interests worth millions of dollars. But Russia is king: in the Qurna oil field alone, Russia's Lukoil holds a majority stake in at least 11 billion barrels. When President Vladimir Putin hardened his antiwar stance last week during British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit, some analysts believe he wanted Russia's contracts protected in return for support on any U.N. action. "But is it actually within his authority to make that promise?" asks Manouchehr Takin of the Centre...