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SEVILLE, Spain--Anatoly Karpov, the challenger, scored a dramatic victory yesterday in the next-to-last game of the World Chess Championship, putting him in position to take the title from champion Garri Kasparov with a draw in the final contest...
...Chess and Poker...
...before the first round ended in late April, the new General Secretary began to assert himself -- subtly at first, then spectacularly. American experts have often said the U.S. comes to the negotiating table as though arms control were a game of poker while the Soviet Union plays it as chess. Gorbachev showed an ability to combine the tactics of both games in a way that was sometimes masterly, sometimes maddening, sometimes both...
...twenty years, however, Intimacy and Sexuality studies have taken a huge leap forward. Even here at Harvard, which is notoriously slow to adopt new and progressive course materials, changes can be seen in the way people are dealing with their own personhood. Instead of frittering away their time with chess clubs as they may have in the 1950s, Harvard students of today are far more likely to spend their time in a sexuality discussion group, grappling with issues such as whether they prefer boys, girls, neither, or both...
...ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting the doughty vessel Military Industrial Complex across the briny reaches of Vineyard Sound...