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When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
...Theater. She was there to introduce the first night of Suzanne Farrell Stages the Masters of 20th Century Ballet, a 10-city road show that opened in Washington last month and closes next week in New York City. At 54, Farrell still looks perfectly capable of donning tutu and toe shoes and filling in for any of the women in her 16-member company. But she doesn't need to, and that's the point. Her versions of such classics as George Balanchine's Apollo and Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, danced by a troupe of near youngsters...
Action. This is what I had been begging for, for days. But now that it was here, it hurt my body and wounded my soul. I'm most worried about my feet. They hurt. When I go to bed - and when I wake up, for that matter - my big toe is all or partially numb. When I stand, they scream up at me, sapping my strength, rotting all my motivation. The boots, a week old, have to break in a little; My feet, according to the local wisdom, are unused to boots and thus have to break...
...Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin went toe-to-toe on Chechnya this week. What meeting were both men attending...
...daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their images run before my eyes... Every day there's a Teletubby something; last week it was a keychain-sized Tinky Winky; the week before, a larger-than-life Po; last month, a lunchbox with the four little demons holding hands, united in song. The little girl is obsessed...