Word: chess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale may have won The Game on the gridiron, but Harvard was victorious where it counted: in The Game of chess...
...standards at adolescent psychiatric hospitals, the half-hour show, which premiered earlier this month on the Public Broadcasting network, has taken viewers inside a bogus abortion clinic run by antiabortion activists, shown how massive foreign debt has crippled Zambia's economy, and profiled an eleven- year-old chess prodigy. This week's show features a report from the campaign trail. If she were raped by her father, Suki Cheong, 11, asked Republican vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle, should she be permitted to have an abortion? Quayle's answer...
...Harvard Chess Team lost the championship title to Yale in a series of close matches at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship...
Last year, Harvard tied with the University of Chicago for first place out of 53 teams in the tournament, the main intercollegiate chess competition...
...captain Chris N. Avery '88 said that despite the loss of first place, Harvard's showing this year and last signaled a "resurgence" in the team's performance. In recent years, the chess team has finished lower than fifth place, he said...