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...serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed of Scrabble tiles.) In countries like Senegal, Scrabble is an official sport. In fact, when Senegal hosted the French Scrabble World championship this summer, its government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark the occasion. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Scrabble was conceived during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York architect named Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring games in history - board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like crossword puzzles - he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked...
...Scrabulous eventually became the most popular application on Facebook, attracting more than 500,000 players each day to the social-networking site. But the brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, had a quick and clever response to the accusations of copyright infringement. Their newly dubbed "WordScraper" now features a malleable board that, if one feels so inclined, can be rearranged to form the original Scrabble board...
...Open in Princeton.GEORGIA INVITATIONALThe third year was the charm for the swimmers, as they had their fastest meet yet in Athens, Ga. Competing against No. 1 Georgia and No. 6 California, among other teams, the Crimson made its presence known and dramatically rewrote the school record board with a third-place finish. The sophomore class provided the Harvard firepower, with Pickard claiming five records and Mills four.Mills got things started on Friday in the 500-yard freestyle, winning the B final in 4:44.52 and stripping nearly three seconds off junior co-captain Alexandra Clarke’s previous record...
...yard medley relay (3:16.61). Co-captain Eric Lynch praised his teammates, who were able to withstand the rigors of the weekend-long competition and consistently produce quality swims. “It was a long meet,” Lynch said. “Basically, across the board, we weren’t really all that rested, and a lot of people showed they were in incredible shape.” The Crimson has a month off before it begins its second half of the season, competing on Jan. 3 against Navy. In that meet the Crimson will...