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I just checkmated this guy, a much higher ranked player, in a 1-0 bullet game. The guy (or gal) probably didn't even breathe from the moment the attack began on move 12 ( Read more... )

salut!

Here's a series of ads for TATA Safari that came out over 3 years, each one better than the one preceding it.
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A million dollars or knighthood: what would you choose and why?

Materials Inventory -

(1) GMAT OG 11th Ed
(2) Really old (pre 2000) Barrons GMAT prep book sans CD
(3) IMS Cie Global Correspondence course books and CD ( Read more... )

Note to Americans: What you do in your own market affects others around the world. Handle yo' scandals, bitches. I'm losing money here. Here's a few pointers ( Read more... )

Commencement address to Stanford grads by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 ( Read more... )

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Moment of Freedom
as the prisoner
blinks in the sun
like a mole
from his hole

a child’s first trip
away from home

That moment of Freedom