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...another Queens Indian Defense, but with the sides switched, the human world champion managed to lock the pawns in the center of the board, depriving the tactical monster of the open lines it needed for a flashy attack. After only two and half hours of play, the Moscow grand master offered the Hamburg computer a draw on the twenty-eighth move and Deep Fritz immediately accepted. With the score now tied at three and a half points apiece, the eight-game match will be decided in the final confrontation on Saturday. Four hundred thousand dollars is riding on the game...
...Woodpushers around the world who were watching Game 8 on the Web were disappointed that Kramnik, the pre-match favorite, did not crush the silicon beast. Chess players were angry at the Russian grand master for calling a truce without a fight. "There should be a new rule," said Tony Rook, host of the Web site http://chess.fm. "If you draw before move 30, you're barred from chess for life...
...year the number rose to 147. At West Virginia University, 200 students were enrolled in the school's forensic-science program in 1999; this year that figure doubled. The University of California, Davis, which already offered an undergraduate forensic degree, has taken the training a step higher, establishing a master's program too. Interestingly, most of the applicants at many of these programs are women: 70% at West Virginia University; 80% at Michigan State. Jay Siegel, a director of Michigan's school of criminal justice, speculates that female students are drawn to forensics because gender bias still limits women...
...hope the irony of the statement attributed to Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson in The Crimson has not gone unnoticed (News, “Faculty Debates Summers’ Remarks,” Oct. 16). Hanson stated that, “he had experienced first-hand how quickly the door to free and open debate can be closed,” referring to the campus-wide backlash against the signers of the divestment petition in general and, more specifically, to the fact that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz publicly challenged him to a debate, a challenge that...
Heavyweight coach Liz O’Leary rowed for the 1980 Rowing Club in the Master Eight. Her boat placed fifth...