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Cheap Shot
 JANUARY 6, 1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked and clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The assault was planned by the ex-husband of fellow ice skater Tonya Harding in an attempt to force Kerrigan out of the competition. While the injury did cause Kerrigan to withdraw from the U.S. championships, the U.S. Figure Skating Association nevertheless chose to name her to the Olympic team. Seven weeks after the attack Kerrigan competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics, skating what she considered to be the two best performances of her life. Her efforts won her an Olympic silver medal. Harding also competed in the 1994 Olympics, finishing eighth. Subsequent investigations revealed that Harding knew of the planned attack and conspired to cover it up. As punishment Harding was stripped of her previous ice skating titles and was banned from the sport for life.
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Checkmate
 JANUARY 8, 1958 - Child chess prodigy Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14. Considered one of the greatest chess players ever, Fischer would become the world's youngest grandmaster at age 15 and go on to win the World Championship in 1972 by defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The eccentric Fischer became reclusive and stopped playing competitive chess for many years. In 1992 he won a rematch against Spassky in a game played in Yugoslavia, which at the time was under a United Nations embargo. The match resulted in an arrest warrant being issued by the U.S. State Department and ultimately cost Fischer his citizenship. Fischer never returned to the United States and died in Iceland in 2008.
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 JANUARY 8, 1963 - Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The special one-picture loan was made directly to the President of the United States and the American people by the government of the French Republic. The French Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, accompanied the painting to the United States. The painting was displayed in the center of the West Sculpture Hall, and was guarded around the clock by United States Marines. The Gallery added 4 hours of viewing time per day. Because of the crowds, visitors had to wait in line up to 2 hours.
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Be Resolved
Happy New Year from Hirschi Law Group! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's celebration. As we begin 2014 there will be lots of changes around here. We are excited to announce that starting February 1, we are moving to a new office location. We will be sharing space with the Law Offices of Shawn Nelson. Please make note of our new address:
19420 N 59th Avenue
Suite B-225
Glendale, AZ 85308
Also be watching for changes to our website HirschiLaw.com and to this newsletter, which will be showing up in the next few weeks.
As you look forward to 2014 and make your resolutions for the new year we hope you will take time to consider creating or updating your estate plan. Now is the perfect time to make sure you have planned for your family's future.
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"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind."
-- Bobby Fischer
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Heath is Reading:
by Dennis Prager
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