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...best-of-20 competition for $1 million. (The loser gets half a mil.) The championship is a co-production of the Intel Corp., the computer chip-maker, and the P.C.A., the breakaway chess organization started by Kasparov two years ago. With its heavyweight title-fight purse, a lightweight ticket price, an inspired setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights "horsies." Until recently, says P.C.A. commissioner Robert Rice, chess was "a medieval game supported in medieval fashion." Now, quite literally, it has been given a whole...
While I have focused on participatory sports, I did not mean to minimize the accomplishments of Harvard varsity sports. In 1994-1995, women's lightweight crew was crowned national champion for the third time in five years, the women's soccer team gained its first NCAA berth in a decade, the women's softball team earned its first-ever ECAC post-season berth and the women's basketball team came within a final-game loss of being the first women's Ivy League team to play in the NCAA Tournament...
Unlike many of the flashier aspects of the Contract With America, the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995 has garnered little attention from the media. Floor-managed by the lightweight Senator Pressler of South Dakota, the Act passed the Senate and the House by wide margins. Given the complexity of the technological issues involved, it is unlikely that the American public will pay much attention to upcoming wrangling between President Clinton and Congressional leaders over the bill's disposition. However, this issue is exceptionally important to the future management of communicative interactions in the American public and private sphere...
...Lightweight Crews...
There is something about odd numbered years in the 90's for the Harvard and Radcliffe lightweight crews...