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...eccentric president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, has launched an all-out campaign to remake this most elevated of intellectual exercises into a fast-paced, high-stakes spectacle suitable for prime-time television. In the process, Ilyumzhinov is either rescuing chess or dragging it down to the level of Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones, depending on your point of view. In the highly political, deeply petty world of top-rung chess, nothing is black and white...
...grand prize. But others think New Line hasn't taken advantage. "I don't feel their heat," a rival strategist observes. New Line exec Russell Schwartz has his own take, with a hint of 9/11: "Even though the movie takes place in a 'created' world, its themes of good vs. evil are more relevant than any movie out there right now." (Translation: If you don't vote for his movie, the terrorists have...
...BANKS VS. PAYPAL...
...decision with each sport rested on several factors,” Joos added. “The national and regional health of the sport, in-state vs. out-of-state competition, Title IX considerations. Sometimes these criteria conflicted, and the success of the sport was outweighed by other factors...
...Shield (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) was inspired by Los Angeles' Rampart police scandal. But it asks a question that is all too relevant in the days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...