Word: devotees
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Kasparov, the world chess champion, simultaneously played seven "masters" and one computer at a Harvard tournament this weekend. And even though he had only 15 minutes to devote to each game, he defeated them all.
The rules of the exhibition give players two hours to complete all of their own moves. Because Kasparov will be split between eight matches, he will have an average of only 15 minutes to devote to each match.
But some undergraduates said they believe it ismore important to devote their money--andenergy--to working on the state level.
So in its early decades, photography was best suited not to events but to the rubble and corpses they left in their wake. The first generations to devote themselves to the camera found amid those ruins the very issues that would preoccupy documentary photographers to this day.
The earliest significant body of war coverage was the work of Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to...