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...tinge of intrigue, the taste of victory, the pain of defeat. For close to 75 members of the Math Club and their guests, Pi Day is an epic quest for mathematical, as well as digestive, domination. 3.14159 (etc...), revered for its infinite mystery and natural frequency, is the reason why Math Club revelers are celebrating “a bad approximation” of pi on a snowy Friday afternoon. Though typically celebrated on March 14 at 3:14 p.m., the Math Club decided to settle with the inaccuracy of celebrating on March 12th at 3:12 p.m. because March...
While the Crimson spent last night recovering and relaxing, its Albany opponents spent the night waging intense Game 3s. Harvard’s first round opponent—the Big Green of Dartmouth—rallied from a 1-0 series deficit to defeat Rensselaer. And the other semifinal matchup features Colgate against Clarkson. Every team besides Harvard was forced to go the full three games, meaning that the Crimson will have an extra day of rest heading into the tournament...
...Beers stepped when he took his second big risk, nearly 40 years later. Last spring he quit his job as President Bush's senior assistant for counterterrorism and went to work as the top foreign policy and national-security adviser for John Kerry's presidential campaign. "I wanted to defeat George Bush," Beers says. He was convinced Bush had gone to war in Iraq too soon and had taken his eye off the global war on terrorism...
...game time, Fischer was nowhere to be found, so Reshevsky sat down opposite Fischer's empty chair, made his first move, punched the game clock and waited. And waited. With five minutes left, Fischer suddenly strode onstage and, with a series of blindingly quick moves, hammered Reshevsky into defeat. Two days later, Fischer quit the tournament and abandoned competitive chess for two years. Which raises the question, Why is the gift of genius so often given to people too stupid to know what to do with...
...Bush administration's closest Iraq-war ally in Europe - had looked set to coast home by a 5 to 8 percent margin. But once it became clear that bombers came from al-Qaeda rather than the Basque separatists blamed by the government, voters showed up in record numbers to defeat Aznar's party. But even if the catalyst came from al-Qaeda, the election turned into a referendum on Spain's involvement in the Iraq invasion, and the result was a sharp rebuke of a government that had defied its electorate to march in lockstep with...