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...Well, then, this must be monomania of a certain sort. Chess is a particularly enclosed, self-referential activity. It's not just that it lacks the fresh air of sport, but that it lacks connections to the real world outside--a tether to reality enjoyed by the monomaniacal students of other things, say, volcanic ash or the mating habits of the tsetse fly. As Stefan Zweig put it in his classic novella The Royal Game, chess is "thought that leads nowhere, mathematics that add up to nothing, art without an end product, architecture without substance...
Both Navy varsity boats entered the weekend with the justified swagger of a No. 1 ranked crew fresh off a solid trouncing of Georgetown—the only boat to have defeated Harvard’s first varsity all season long. The Navy first varsity had not lost a spring race since 2003, and the 2004 Midshipmen rowed to an open-water victory at the national championships. Navy had won the previous three Haines Cups over the Crimson. Only one Harvard boat got the best of the Midshipmen in a dual race during that three-year stretch...
...candidate drops from one position into another that has absolutely nothing to do with it—like dropping from Treasurer to Social Chair. The candidates originally running for Social Chair likely spent days learning about the position, agonizing over position papers and speeches, and genuinely trying to create fresh and exciting ideas for the coming year. It’s not a stretch to say they are generally more informed and more passionate about the position than any former, losing Treasurer candidate. In dropping down, people get in the way of the most prepared and enthusiastic candidate being elected...
...Ideally, after a fresh snowfall, the only way anyone would know we had been there would be that they saw one of us give a slideshow,” Krause says...
...former Fresh Prince and pop rapper turned $20 million movie actor features a song called “Switch” on “Lost and Found,” his newest attempt to prove he hasn’t lost his feel for the street. With a song like this, one is inevitably reminded that he tries to switch back and forth between the dueling spheres of cinema and compact disc...