Compare with the death of Alexander Alekhine: While planning for a World Championship match against Botvinnik,[66] Alekhine died in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal on March 24, 1946. The circumstances of his death are still a matter of debate. It is usually attributed to a heart attack, but a letter in Chess Life magazine from a witness to the autopsy stated that choking on meat was the actual cause of death. At autopsy, a three-inch long piece of unchewed meat was discovered blocking his windpipe.[79] Some have speculated that he was murdered by a French "death squad". A few years later, Alekhine's son, Alexander Alekhine Junior, said that "the hand of Moscow reached his father".[80] Canadian Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett, who has lived in Portugal since the late 1980s, and who has thoroughly investigated Alekhine's death, favors this possibility. Spraggett makes a case for the manipulation of the crime scene and the autopsy by the Portuguese secret police PIDE. He believes that Alekhine was murdered outside his hotel room, probably by the Soviets.[81] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine On , Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: It wasn't a suicide, but then he was a Soviet spy. This looks like some elementary school textbook. O.K. On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:37 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Review of a book on Walter Benjamin in today's Wall Street Journal http://tinyurl.com/q2qwcyp 'Benjamin is here as much a flesh-and-blood representative of the modern as its theoretician. Modernism was all about the peripheral, the ephemeral, the accidental, the transient. It was about plurality, not singularity; ambiguity instead of certainty. Walter Benjamin traveled this off-road, and his thought was consistent with his experience. He was an incessant gambler, a serial adulterer, an experimenter with drugs and a refugee in every sense. In discarding traditional intellectual categories and seeking new kaleidoscopic sources of inspiration, he showed parallel urges in his ideas.' ————————————————— This paragraph alone should win its authors some sort of prize. Robert Paul