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...World chess champion Gary Kasparov will be coming to Harvard on the weekend of October 27 to play a chess exhibition at Sanders Theatre, as part of a promotion of Soviet sports in the United States...
Kasparov, a Soviet citizen, is coming to Harvard to promote chess and other Soviet sports worldwide in conjunction with Glasnost, said Harvard Chess Club head Daniel H. Edelman...
...Chess Champion Will Come to Harvard...
...chess player will also discuss a new curriculum he has developed, which stresses chess as an academic discipline. Kasparov's curriculum has been proven to combat drug use in inner-city schools by endowing children with cognitive skills which allow them to make proper decisions concerning drugs, Edelman said...
Ross was speaking of Time Inc. and Warner, whose planned merger has come to resemble a three-dimensional chess game, with the winner destined to become king of the global media board. Rumors and speculation ran wild, and stock prices gyrated, as directors of Time met last Thursday and early Friday to consider the hostile $10.7 billion takeover offer that Paramount Communications had put forward the previous week. After deliberating for ten hours on the 34th floor of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, the board approved a double-barreled response that demonstrated Time's determination to complete its merger...