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...School prides itself on its quickness to spot trends. When Watergate broke out, officials cobbled together a Crisis in Government course taught by Eugene McCarthy and Law Professors Raoul Berger and Philip Kurland. The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer match in 1972 prompted a sellout course on chess strategy. Says Allen Austill, dean of the school: "It's education in the marketplace. We can jump at things that look good. If they fade, they fade...
...simple game, played with bead-like white and black "stones" on a chess-like board, the object being for each player to try to encircle and capture his opponent's stones...
Beyond its commercial success, Go disciples claim it develops a far greater mental dexterity than its Western counterpart, chess. Go's applications range not onky to military tactics but to psychology, mind-training and aesthetics, as well. Some Go historians even contend that Go embraces more than a Japanese ideal of mental exercise--that it epitomizes the Japanese spirit itself...
...chicken parts, his lifelong nickname is "Fats", and occasionally polish off heroic amounts of Courvoisier cognac in an evening. His hard times appear to be over. Earning a comfortable living like his three colleagues (exactly how much, they won't say), Holmes finds tranquillity in shooting pool, or playing chess on a board that reflects his expansive nature: it is three feet square...
Dwight does play chess with Greene and also Holmes. He is the most active of the four in the world beyond the Steelers. In the offseason, he works for a Commerce Department program that finds jobs for black college students from Pittsburgh's Hill district...