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Gambit: Chess and the City more similar news »
Two Columbia journalism graduate students have put together an interactive Web site looking at the history of chess in New York City. It has interviews with a number of prominent city players, including Hikaru Nakamura, Maurice Ashley (the only African-American grandmaster) and Joshua Waitzkin, on whose life the book and movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” [...].
Sun Mar 30, 2008 more from this source»»
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Wheels: Tata Strikes a Deal. Now What? more similar news »
The Jaguar and Land Rover employees I’ve talked to recently -- the few still on the payroll -- say that Ford cut off financial life support for the brands a while back. The U.S. headquarters building in Irvine, Calif., for Ford’s crumbling Premier Automotive Group, of which Jaguar and Land Rover were key components, is eerily empty.
Sun Mar 30, 2008 more from this source»»
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Paper Cuts: Literary Mating, Continued more similar news »
Reading Rachel Donadio's reference to Norman Rush's "Mating" in her post on literary dealbreakers — hot on the heels of Jennifer Balderma's most mellisonant post about obscure words — reminded me of John Updike's review in the New Yorker of that remarkable 1991 novel about a brilliant young American anthropologist in Botswana who falls in [...].
Sat Mar 29, 2008 more from this source»»
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