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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Garry Kasparov: The Russian oligarchy’s next target?
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has been lucky. The founder of the United Civil Front, he’s an outspoken pro-democracy, anti-Vladimir Putin activist.
Basically speaking, he’s lucky he’s not dead. Alexander Litvinenko, Paul Klebnikov, Anna Politkovskaya and countless others died fighting for their beliefs.
His column in today’s Wall Street Journal (the full article is available […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: NEW OLYMPIC LOGO UNVEILED
What do you think?
Here’s an interactive page from the folks at Chicago 2016 about the logo’s symbolism.
I’m not sure this one really captures my — or anyone else’s — imagination. If anything, if the games Games had are awarded to Chicago, the committee could revert back to the old logo.
(On a somewhat fun […]
