----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: Bobby Fischer on 9/11
> [just catching up with the Harper's pile...]
>
> Harper's - March 2002
>
> [Diatribe]
>
> THE BIN LADEN DEFENSE
>
> The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo
> Mercado was broadcast September I I on the Philippine radio station
> Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American to win the
> World Chess Championship; he fled the United States in 1992 after the
> federal government indicted him for breaking economic sanctions by
> playing a chess tournament inYugoslavia.
Yet more proof that the correlation between IQ and political insight is far from 1/1.
-- Luke