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Nearly four years have passed since 1 climbed the Widener steps and surveyed the Yard as Napoleon might have surveyed Austerlitz, or Waterloo Today, it's embarrassing--but a sweet embarrassment--to recall that former...
...Monday night, Hazenberg, who studied applied mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo in southern Ontario, appeared on "Jeopardy!" and came away with what amounts to roughly a year's Harvard tuition for a half-hour's work...
...humanity that has washed over the American continent during the last three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people in search...
...return of Bobby Fischer, the biggest comeback since Napoleon sailed a single-masted flat-bottom out of Elba (on his way, mind you, to Waterloo), has been widely noted but quite misunderstood. After 20 years of self-imposed seclusion, the greatest chess player of his time returns to life by way of a rematch with Boris Spassky (the man from whom he took the world championship in 1972) in, of all places, Yugoslavia. The picture flashed around the world is that of Fischer spitting on a U.S. government order charging him with violating the U.N. embargo on Yugoslavia. The papers...
Peace and U.S. security are inextricably linked to the fate of Russia's political and economic reforms. After the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, he described the battle as "the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life." Today President Boris Yeltsin has launched a radical program of economic reforms. Its fate will at best be a near run thing. Just as Wellington's victory determined the course of European history for the 19th century, the outcome of Yeltsin's bold gamble will decisively affect the history of the 21st century...