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...dour-faced club jumpers have been replaced by white suits and rims that glint in the L.A. sunlight. As is appropriate for a video that is selling a movie, there’s a lot of interesting and un-explained stuff going on: T.I. plays an intense game of chess, a weightlifting model hangs around, and plenty of women tool around on roller skates. The pinnacle of the video arrives in the form of a masked T.I. brandishing a Louis Vuitton man-purse...
...pretty conceptual. …It’s connected to what I’m teaching now, although I’m not using Duchamp, because my class is specifically about music. But I use John Cage. Cage was enamoured of Duchamp and his work, and they played chess together every day.” To many of us, the return to academia after a ten-year stint as a freewheeling musician might seem incongruous. And indeed, although Krukowski looks back with fondness at his time at Harvard, he freely admits that, as a graduate student, he disliked...
...Valenzuela would like to obtain funds for a trial in which half the 500 participants would engage in a program of intensive mental stimulation while the rest would carry on as normal. In the meantime, though, why wait? A nightly game of chess may do nothing to thwart dementia. But unlike an experimental drug, there's no risk of its doing any harm, either...
...know every little thing," says U.S.A.'s Kelly Stephens of Seattle, Washington. The father of Canada defenseman Delaney Collins was principal of the high school Stephens attended in British Columbia. "You get to know the players, you get to know the coaching styles, so it's really a chess match out there," she says. U.S.A. coach Ben Smith says, "They never surprise us, and we never surprise them...
...what makes Muslims laugh? The Muslims on my crew told me Sikh jokes like "How many Sikhs does it take to play a game of chess?" I had a Hindu driver, and guess what he told me: Muslim jokes...