Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
Brown has already benefited in its first season as Harvard's travel partner. The Bears beat both Dartmouth and St. Lawrence the nights after those two teams stunned the Crimson...
Maine (1-8-0, 1-7-0) is in 11th place only because the Black Bears have been fortunate enough to play--and beat--Yale. Maine will tune up with a game against Division III Bowdoin tonight before another tough game against UNH on Saturday...
DIED. PAUL BOWLES, 88, individualistic Broadway composer and author of The Sheltering Sky; in Tangier, Morocco. A mentor to Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers, Bowles delighted in rejecting American conventions. He lived as an expatriate--mostly in Tangier with his lesbian wife, writer Jane Bowles--and wrote disturbing tales of innocence corrupted by savagery...
...careful with the Kosovo issue, because voters have shown clearly they're not into negative campaigning this year, and there's a remarkable lack of mudslinging because of it." But tongue-biting is not the specialty of the man nicknamed "Mayor Meanie," who in the past year has beat up on everyone from cabdrivers to homeless people to jaywalkers. So as the Senate race heats up, Hillary should be prepared for a fresh onslaught of Kosovo bombs...