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...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; the king of Bahrain will pay Kramnik $1 million if he wins and $600,000 if he looses...
...Several thousand Boston janitors have been on strike for the past three weeks, marching through the streets of Boston every night demanding justice. These janitors belong to the same union as the janitors who clean Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past...
...measured in Scoville Units. Bell peppers have zero, jalapeños have around 5,000, and cayenne peppers have around 40,000. Habañeros, the hottest of all known peppers, and what I chose to eat, have 300,000. Yes, that’s right: Three hundred thousand...
More than an “in,” the Harvard name is eternal baggage, should one choose to carry it. It refuses anonymity; it invites a thousand characterizations. To some, it means wealth, prestige and success, or it means snobbery and a woman with whom you don’t want to get involved. To Illinois high school girls, it means someone who can spot them for gas.The reality is that, for better or for worse, while there may be different versions of the H-bomb, Harvardians are never without its power...
...dangerous as al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. They attacked American embassies in Africa, killing 224 people. They attacked the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors. They hijacked four jet planes and crashed three into buildings, killing over three thousand people. Even Saddam Hussein cannot claim such grisly results against America...