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The Russian grandmaster admits that he found it boring to study chess openings.
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The twelfth world chess champion says that, even when things were bleak, he "never lost the will to fight."
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Definitely, says Anatoly Karpov, if marketed correctly. That’s why the Russian grandmaster wants to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
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The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.
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From the age of four, Anatoly Karpov saw great beauty in chess. He made the game his profession and was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985.
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If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.
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Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?
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"I can't imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy," says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.
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His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?
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The writer had a feeling of "immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate."
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Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the "depressing, smoke-filled" newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn't a place where he wanted to work.
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The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff's biography of him was so "personal."
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A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.
Generals sometimes become presidents. Our nation’s first president became a full general posthumously. Eleven other generals rose to the rank of commander-in-chief. So I don’t have a problem with General […]
Your brain doesn't work as well as you think it does. At least that's what psychologist Christopher Chabris argues in his new book "Invisible Gorillas," which calls into question the […]
Award-winning Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky stopped by Big Think yesterday before taking off this morning for the Gulf Coast, where he will try to wrap his head (and camera lens) […]
If your mother is elderly, requires 24-hour attention, and has Alzheimers, would you care for her yourself at home, hire a nurse, or put her in a nursing home? These […]
Internet comment sections are typically seen as a bastion of free speech, but have they outlived their importance? When do abusive and lazy comments override anonymous expression?
Dean Baker proposes ways to pay off the budget deficit that don't include cutting social security: among them, a financial speculation tax and allowing the sale of generic prescription drugs.