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...Gregory House, a brilliant but nasty diagnostician. House is so gifted not in spite of but because of his cynicism--his misanthropy and suspicion make him the ruthlessly probing skeptic his patients need. And Laurie's portrayal turns House from a routine disease-of-the-week exercise into a chess match with illness, in which his not-nice guy finishes first. --By James Poniewozik
...FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, chess legend; from eight months of detention in Japan on an alleged passport violation; after being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a rematch there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and held a press conference in which he denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, vitriolic chess legend; after being detained for eight months in Japan for an alleged passport violation; upon being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a re-match there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and publicly denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
...RETIRED. GARRY KASPAROV, 42, the world's top-ranked chess player since winning his first championship in 1985; in Moscow. A fierce, innovative competitor, Kasparov's victories were so numerous that his few losses were better known-like his 1997 defeat by a 1.2-ton IBM computer, Deeper Blue. "I am a man of big goals," the Russian grand master said upon his retirement, "but I no longer see any real goal in the world of chess." An outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov said he would now spend more time focusing on politics...
...They were busy buying up all of Allston,” Rees said last Friday. “I had just moved from Allston so it was really bittersweet to see these people planning the chess board of taking over this great neighborhood...