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During Game 8, I found myself in a room with the U.S. chess champion (Lev Alburt), four grand masters and one legend, former World Champion Mikhail Tal. It was like watching the World Series with five Hall of Famers parsing every pitch and Cy Young correcting them. On Karpov's 23rd move the parsing got slightly crazy: If Kasparov does A then Karpov must do B. If Kasparov then tries C and Karpov answers with D, look out: E, F and G follow. But if Kasparov does Z, then...
...Their QB did a fine job," said Harvard Coach Joe Restic of Kehler, who rushed for 92 yards and completed eight of nine passes for 113 more. "He's a stong runner. We handled the pitch fairly well, but once they spread it out, he could cut back and that's how they got the big plays...
...does Dick do it? For one thing, he brings an instinct for journalistic values to the task of selling ads. For years he has delighted in meeting regularly with TIME editors to learn about the stories after each week's magazine is published. Then he takes his sales pitch into the field. "Making a sales call with Dick is a little like a religious experience," says TIME U.S. advertising-sales manager Barry Briggs. "By the time he finishes his delivery, the congregation is on its feet...
...highly idiosynchratic dialogue. Punctuated by puns and wordplay, it succeeds in pulling laffs as often as it fails. Bobby (Sean Williford) and Rob (Joel Rainey) conduct a whirlwind, rapid-fire dialogue that frequently disintegrates into slurs and incoherence, a problem that rests as much with the actors' nervous pitch as with the text itself...
Would-be career women face equally great obstacles at home, where men feel no obligation to pitch in. A 1986 government survey of dual-career couples found that men devote only eight minutes of a workday to household chores and child rearing, compared with 3 1/2 hours for their wives. Younger men increasingly take out the garbage and play with their children on weekends but still leave most household affairs to their wives. A 33-year-old banker typically relies on his wife to lay out his clothes each morning. But, he adds, "I select the necktie...