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...Harvard Chess Club President Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00 got what he wanted for the holidays--a four-foot-tall trophy from the annual Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championships, now displayed in his room...
...conflict. Republicans, meanwhile, are hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington is now playing the endgame of a chess match in which either side could suddenly declare checkmate...
...after-school program, scheduled to open in January. John and Denise Wood, both 81, and Marshall Newton, 66, have been recruiting fellow retirees, along with high school and college students, to serve as volunteer instructors in a range of after-school activities--including computer sciences, drama, entrepreneurship, sewing, sculpture, chess and dance--for the greater Kennett community's middle school children...
...walk the hot, sun-splashed pathways of the village, past the wooden huts with ornate carved doors--they look like Swiss chalets--and a shrine, a flakapau, which displays blue wooden figures, the size of large chess pawns, that represent ancestors. A medicine man sits in his doorway; he cannot rise to greet us because his right leg is greatly swollen from a snakebite. He has treated his wound successfully. Some children follow us as we go, but most are too self-possessed to become groupies. When approached, they respond to questions politely, but mainly they seem to be studying...
...audience to become truly involved in the increasingly complicated plotline, the production's pace cannot go slack. Wait Until Dark is a psychological chess game: We must be privy to all of Suzie's moves and the thought process driving them...