Word: chess
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...Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel's swanky Cerise restaurant serves a modern European menu using local ingredients, and the bartender makes a mean mojito. It's been said one should never mix business with pleasure. Whoever said that...
Modern Iran's Persian forebears claim to have invented the game of chess, and that heritage seems to be serving it well in the evolving diplomatic game between Tehran and Washington...
...suggests they're also unlikely to flatly reject the offer. More likely, they'll come back with a more qualified, nuanced offer - not altogether different from the one made by Condi Rice. As long as both sides prefer to avoid a violent confrontation, that's the kind of careful chess game they'll continue to play...
...small taste of what’s to come. Much of the information therein is more or less innocuous: it’s unlikely that the family of E.Q. Abbot ’06 (that’s 1906) is going to be terribly embarrassed by his chess defeat at the hands of A. Breese of Yale in November of 1904, particularly given that the Harvard team won out in the end. The great great grandchildren of Joseph M. Cromwell are not quite as fortunate however—it’s now a matter of easily-searchable public record...
...chains inhabiting the Square, such as Pizzeria Uno, Starbucks, and Au Bon Pain, the latter two having more than one location in the Square. Apparently Au Bon Pain is allowed because of its Boston-based roots. While the main location might gain an argument with its outdoor chess boards, the second restaurant is as unoriginal as any other chain, with the added treat of excessive prices...