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...thought it was in—just give credit to our guys, no one quit,” Kolarik said. “We could have easily hung it up…but we just kept going. I think everyone just sensed we were going to win that game...
...It’s just one of those things,” Fish said. “The [Crimson], it won’t quit. It’s what you have to be—they just refuse to go down...
...political cross fire, not real bullets, into which Beers stepped when he took his second big risk, nearly 40 years later. Last spring he quit his job as President Bush's senior assistant for counterterrorism and went to work as the top foreign policy and national-security adviser for John Kerry's presidential campaign. "I wanted to defeat George Bush," Beers says. He was convinced Bush had gone to war in Iraq too soon and had taken his eye off the global war on terrorism...
...nowhere to be found, so Reshevsky sat down opposite Fischer's empty chair, made his first move, punched the game clock and waited. And waited. With five minutes left, Fischer suddenly strode onstage and, with a series of blindingly quick moves, hammered Reshevsky into defeat. Two days later, Fischer quit the tournament and abandoned competitive chess for two years. Which raises the question, Why is the gift of genius so often given to people too stupid to know what to do with...
Muhammad Shams, an SSI security guard at Eliot House, says the situation is not as grave as his colleagues believe. “I don’t think anyone will quit because the majority will not be able to find a better deal than their job at Harvard,” Shams said...