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Longmuir serves as her airline's top executive for governmental, regulatory and international affairs and compares the job to "playing 3-D global chess." A former corporate lawyer in New York City, she worked closely with then Transportation Secretary Andy Card, currently the White House chief of staff, and in 1992 helped coordinate federal disaster-relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew. She then went to work for United Airlines, now the world's second largest carrier, after American Airlines, and has been its voice in Washington--and foreign capitals--since...
Fairness is another concern. Edwin Darden, senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association, agrees that the ruling "captures the imagination that some nice kid who blows the trumpet, is in the chess club or is in the Future Farmers of America will be subjected to all these drug tests." But in practice Darden expects "a nonreaction" similar to what followed the 1995 ruling on athlete testing...
...they give you ruled paper, write the other way." I chose it both because it expressed my contempt for my structured surroundings ? la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher was Mr. Botte, who taught biology and liked to animate the frogs and crawfish we had to dissect by making them dance in their waxed pans...
...Bobby Fischer played World Championship elimination rounds against the best players on the planet. These were open-ended matches that finished only when one player had won six games. Such matches could take months, because great chess masters are so evenly matched that 80% of tournament games end in draws. Victories come at rare intervals; six wins can take forever. Not this time. Fischer conducted a campaign unrivaled since Scipio Africanus leveled Carthage. He beat two challengers six games in a row, which, combined with wins before and after, produced a streak of 20 straight victories against the very best...
...That's not to say that all school districts will start whipping out drug tests for every student who wants to join the chess club. Few schools could afford the expense, or would want to put up with the hassle. But the ruling is another in a line of decisions this year that has produced significant shifts in the broader landscape of privacy law. "This is the third case of the term in which students' claims of privacy have been overruled," Perry notes...