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Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 says athletic recruiting is similar to the College's efforts to find the best math students or chess champions...
Until Lolita ("light of my life, fire of my loins") scorched the best-seller list in 1955, Nabokov was a popular instructor of literature at Cornell, a productive but obscure author of exotic fiction and chess problems, and an even lesser known authority on butterflies. His genius for transforming sensory impressions into language may always remain elusive, but his descriptive powers owe much to training in natural science...
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Russian Garry Kasparov successfully defended--for the fifth time--his world champion title in chess, forcing India's Viswanathan Anand to a draw in their 18th game and picking up $900,000 in prize money...
...mayor, who then made the ceremonial first move for Anand. Giuliani pushed the c pawn two squares forward. Vishy, somewhat horrified, wanted e-4. Even though the mayor had taken his hand off the piece, Anand was allowed to change the move--flouting the most basic rule of chess. But, hey, that's show...