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Chandler's most immortal creation -- co-produced by Humphrey Bogart -- was the quixotic figure of the gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, private eye and public conscience, sitting behind his pebbled-glass door with an office bottle and a solitary game of chess. What made Marlowe special was simply the fact that he was nothing special, no genius like Sherlock Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses...
Yale may have won The Game on the gridiron, but Harvard was victorious where it counted: in The Game of chess...
...Elis proved their athletic superiority with a 26-17 victory over the Crimson Saturday at Soldiers Field, but the Harvard Chess Club demonstated superior mental acuity by fashioning a one-point victory over the Elis Saturday morning in the Science Center...
...wasn't sure of our chances in the football game on Saturday," Edelman said, "but I was sure of one thing. Harvard would win at least one match, and that was the chess match...
...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...