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Harvard graduate is organizing a three-day event that will bring the top-ranked female chess player in the world to Boston for games with the governor and with American chess masters...
...Boston press conference yesterday previewed what will be known as the Boston International Chess Exhibition...
...Kingsley in Searching for Bobby Fischer: "I'm a reclusive chess master, isolated from human feeling. But I'll tutor a seven-year-old chess prodigy who's as cute as a Keane portrait. He will win my heart and teach me how to love life...
...community. The Lowell House opera production was of "'A' number one quality," recalls Sawhill. Sawhill also remembers Lowell's dramatic club, jazz quarters and high table, at which students joined the House Master and his wife in black tie and drank sherry. Interhouse rivalry abounded, in athletics, debating and chess...
...powers-that-be seem to consist of Allan Bloom supporters who believe that the standard of American excellence is the canon of white American history, literature and culture. Why should anyone accept this kind of standard, which creates SAT analogies like "'dividends is to shareholders' and 'checkmate is to chess?'" The debate has raged back and forth among educators and policy makers for many years now. The conclusion that they have come to is that a change in the content of the SAT is necessary and beneficial. It will help more than it will hinder...