Chess has a protean ability to keep up with the times and the changing requirements of time itself.Seventy or eighty years ago, chess seemed unvaryingly slow to the unsympathetic observer. Today, courtesy of modern chess timers and custom, you may play an entire game - casual or tournament - in one minute or six hours.Read more:
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(By Eric G. Wilson, Correspondent) Newsroom drama has always made for good cinema. "His Girl Friday," "All the President's Men," "State of Play" - these are only a few of the popular movies featuring idealistic reporters hungry for truth, editors wearily pushing for a scoop, the consuming chaos of the deadline.In "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist," a charming and wistful memoir, Laurie Hertzel engagingly evokes this romantic world while also tracking its decline in the age of the Internet.Read more:
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(By Charles J. Gans, Associated Press) In a career spanning half a century, Abbey Lincoln turned her back on the image-makers who wanted to turn her into a Marilyn Monroe in sepia. Instead, she chose to go her own way as an uncompromising jazz singer, songwriter, actress and civil rights advocate.Lincoln died Aug. 14 in New York at age 80.Read more:
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(By Michael Weinstein, Features editor) We're back from hiatus with the winners of our T-shirt contest. A few weeks ago we asked you to tell us about your favorite t-shirt.The winner is Sheilah Plonk of Fort Mill, S.C. She wins the Unofficial Charlotte Observer T-shirt Collection (seven shirts not available in any store, online or TV shopping network. For now, anyway).Read more:
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(By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle) Anthony Geffen has made a documentary that could just as easily be filed under romance. It's about a love triangle - unusual because the home-wrecking third party is the largest mountain in the world."The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest" explores the life of George Mallory, making a case that he reached the peak of Everest in 1924, nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary was credited with the feat.Read more:
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(By Rob Lowman, Los Angeles Daily News) Prepare to be rocked. That was what I was told when approaching James Nachtwey's photo collage "The Sacrifice," which is part of a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum called "Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties."It is 60 operating-room photos, a stack of three prints (measuring about 31/2 feet high) and print after print running a bit more than 32 feet long. They were taken while the photographer was traveling with an emergency military medical unit in Iraq in 2006 and show doctors and nurses working to save the lives of wounded servicemen and civilians.Read more:
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