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...president is not averse, DiLieto says by way of example, to marching in New Haven's annual parades. Only recently, at the joint-sponsored "Community University Day," Giamatti pitted himself against DiLieto in a human chess match on the New Haven common...
...fashionable these days to feel guilty about the treatment of Vietnam vets and the cold welcome these unwitting pawns in a global chess game got. If Charlie Company's experiences are representative, guilty is how we ought to feel. The litany of broken homes, drunken rampages, joblessness--in short, as the authors write, the palming off of a national shame on the vets--is real, and it's time to start remembering...
...Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess. Smiley and Karla had the time to outwait and outthink each other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental, a messy byproduct of otherwise elegant planning. The Middle East, as it is and as Le Carré portrays it, offers no such leisure. The distance between theory and the front...
...Boston University (10-7-0) 113.2 6. Yale (11-5-0) 112.7 7. Boston College (8-5-2) 110.9 8. St.Lawrence (10-5-0) 126.3 9. Clarkson (9-6-1) 102.6 10. Northeastern (8-8-1) 99.8 The ratings, calculated on the Elo system used to rank chess masters, include only ECAC games played up to and including Wednesday night. The ratings were created and compiled by Mike Ward and Jon Urdan...
Whatever their feelings about letting Germany remain the playing board in a superpower chess game, the Greens have become a force to be reckoned with. They hold more than 1000 city government seats and are represented in six of the country's II state countries. The latest polls predict the Greens will get 5.5 percent of the vote in a national election in March, enough to put them in the German national parliament, the Bundestag. More significantly, members have turned some of the romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks...