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...national high school chess champion in 1986 and 1987, last lost to Kasparov in New York two years ago. At that tournament, Kasparov played six junior chess champions, beating three, tying two and losing to one. Experts who evaluated those games labelled Rao's the most interesting, theoretically played game...
...another, who cares what the high-horsed Lampoon moralizers think? Despite all the press releases the Lampoon sent out, how many people said, "Wait a minute. I realize I am greedy. Now I am going to change my life...
CALIFORNIANS and graduates of posh suburban high schools are guilty of popularizing one of Madison Avenue's most banal advertising campaigns...
Most undergraduates here would admit to believing, at least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...
...Course: A high-powered married pair of scholars from the University of Pennsylvania rejected a joint Harvard tenure offer recently, but members of the departments spurned by the two seemed to be taking it all in stride...