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| Born (some say)
on this date:
Yul Brynner
Mate in 6
(White moves.)
(White: Ke8, Nd7, Be5,
b5, e4, f2.
Black: Ke6.)
Log24, July 3, 2006:
"... There was a problem laid out on the
board, a six-mover. I couldn't solve it, like a lot of my
problems. I reached down and moved a knight....
I looked down at the chessboard. The
move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved
it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a
game for knights."
-- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, begun in the summer of 1938
Log24, July 2, 2006:
"Is a puzzlement!"
Log24, July 5, 2006:
"In this way we are offered a formidable lesson for every Christian community."
-- Pope Benedict XVI on Pentecost, June 4, 2006, St. Peter's Square.
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| State and Church
Today's birthdays:
George W. Bush and
Sylvester Stallone, born on
the same day 60 years ago.
Two birthday quotations from Kathleen Parker:
"Verily, I say unto you - Whatever."
"No, wait, how about this: 'Yo, Christ Buddy!'"
-- Orlando Sentinel
column written for release July 1, 2006
Parker's column, on recent Presbyterian interpretations of the Holy Trinity, is titled
"I believe in Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe."
What about Shemp?
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| Mexican leftist's
lead slips
in election recount
"The winner will take over from Fox on December 1,
inheriting a divided nation and a fierce war against drug
smuggling gangs."
Muy buena suerte.
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| What Song the Sirens Sang
"Wake you up in the
middle of the night
just to hear them say..."
"Suitcases filled with cash had changed hands in the four-star Hotel Hassler in Rome."
-- F. Mark Wyatt, recently deceased
career CIA officer,
quoted in this morning's
New York Times
The New York Times, with its usual lack of clarity about dates,
says Wyatt died "on Thursday." Presumably this was Thursday a
week ago-- June 29, 2006, the Feast of Saint Peter.
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