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...Savannah school board will vote on revising an existing policy to include a clause prohibiting "lewd gestures ... and suggestive or vulgar movements" on the part of any school performer. And, board member Lori Brady says, "that includes the chess club...
...Harvard football team may have proven its superiority this weekend, but the Chess Club turned the Wolff Cup over to Yale this weekend after an extremely close match...
...chess match, which is held annually on the morning just before The Game, dates back to 1906. Harvard has won the Cup seven of the last nine years, last losing...
...Moving from pawns to players, Harvard chess expert Lorin F. Deland dreamt up that famous football play, The Flying Wedge. Picture the Mighty Ducks flying V. But instead of quacking hockey players it was snarling Puritans.The 1892 Game was the first and only time the play ever appeared on the field; it was banned the following year because of its brutality...
...Afghan war is a chess game, then even Kabul is not the king - while ceding control of the capital signals the end of Taliban control of the country, the movement is not yet destroyed. For that to happen, anti-Taliban forces would have to capture Kandahar, too. Washington had feared that if Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance before a viable anti-Taliban coalition had support in the south, the retreating Taliban might find considerable support for fighting on. Much now depends on efforts by the U.S. and other international powers to broker an agreement on a post-Taliban regime...