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...years ago has been turned into a prison, a conversion that required little change in atmosphere. The athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with little U.S.A. men on one side...
There are two forms of debate. Off-topic debate is more familiar to most. It is skin to political debates and stresses eloquence and oratorical skills. On-topic debate, by contrast, is truly the varsity sport of the mind. Comparing it to college bowl is like comparing chess to "Trivial Pursuits...
...what is life like in the official. "Kennedy Suite" of Weld Hall? "We play chess, and we watch Batman every day, said Bruce M. Klucklohn '87 basking in his newly discovered glory...
Unlike other areas of the globe, Central America is less of a pawn in a superpower chess game than a vital security interest to the United States. As LaFeber points out in the beginning of the book, roughly two-thirds of the nation's trade, not to mention virtually all of its oil and key minerals, pass through the Caribbean sea lanes bordered by the five Central American states. As a result, the United States has reacted violently to any foreign influence it perceives as a threat to its lifeline...
What it comes down to is that this Administration is playing a game of geopolitical chess with live pawns. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is just as much an Ivory Tower as this or any other university. Casualties are numbers to the policymakers in Washington, not people. Were the invasion of Grenada a just cause, we wold feel saddened by the loss of life but still understand. As it is, all we can feel is shame. U.S. out of Grenada...