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Predictably, the Deep Blue match spawned a Luddite reaction, and much talk in hushed and ominous tones on television about the clash between man and his creation. Indeed, that is how the match was packaged: a millennial showdown, a parable of the dominant role computers have come to play in society our collective anxiety about technology exploited...
...Harvard's unbeaten streak was stopped by then No. 3 Connecticut. The Crimson captured two more wins, following the loss, before heading into a Halloween day showdown versus then No. 8 Dartmouth to determine the Ivy League champion...
Despite the outstanding showing at Heps, Schotte said she thinks the team's best meet was the Harvard-Yale showdown in the spring...
...early in Clinton's first term, back when she was U.N. ambassador during the first showdown with Serbia over Bosnia, that Albright showed her stripes on foreign policy. At a 1993 meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell--who gave his name to the doctrine that the military should be used only after a clear political goal has been set, and then only with decisive force--she challenged the general: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" As Powell later recalled, "I thought I would have...
...Yeltsin is threatening to dissolve the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, and call new elections unless his new pick for prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, is approved. That looked unlikely Thursday, as legislators proceeded with moves to impeach Yeltsin, setting the stage for a showdown. While the constitution allows Yeltsin to dissolve the legislature if it rejects his nominee three times, it also forbids dissolution of the Duma while impeachment proceedings are under way. That may look like a constitutional crisis in a Western democracy, but in Boris Yeltsin's Russia lawyers and judges...