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...Indoor chess tables like those currently outside the cafe will also be part of the addition to the three-year-old restaurant...
Software is what allows a computer to perform a given task, like play chess or print out your homework. Often, complex software packages such as word processors and database programs can cost several hundreds of dollars. Most students can share the same software with dormmates who have similar computers...
Still, Administration officials insisted over and over that the really hard bargaining in the Daniloff case has not even begun. Said one: "Only the chess pieces have been moved." Last week some State Department officials were convinced that there would be no way to get Daniloff released without arranging something that the Soviets could claim was a trade. As an Administration official puts it, however, "there are swaps and there are swaps." One idea now is that the Soviets might let Daniloff go with the understanding that Zakharov would be traded later for someone more suitable: a prominent Soviet dissident...
...this fall. Among Drew's arriving classmates will be Horia Mocanu, who fled Rumania to Turkey with his family in a small boat, taught himself English and, after his U.S. arrival in 1982, earned straight A's at a Cleveland high school, became editor of the paper, founded a chess club and set up an alliance of area high school newspapers. Frederick Rudolph, emeritus professor of the history of education at Williams and onetime visiting lecturer at Harvard, calls these undergraduates "the best students in the world" and suspects that for such a brilliant corps of young men and women...
...outstanding phenomenon," master of "sparkling language (and) unexpected metaphors," a real Russian "yearning for his homeland." Could this be the same Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian-born novelist, whom Soviet authorities had long dismissed for "literary snobbism"? It could indeed, when a Soviet publication, 64 Chess Review, is prompted by today's new, more permissive cultural climate to print an excerpt from Nabokov's 1954 memoir Other Shores with a glowing introduction by Poet Fazil Iskander. So what if Nabokov is nine years dead, his greatest works, including the sensational Lolita, published decades ago? So what that...