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...Harvard chess team tied for first place in the prestigious Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship held two weeks ago, tying the University of California at Berkeley and defeating 17 other squads...
...team, representing the Harvard Chess Club, collected five of six possible match points in the Salt Lake City tournament, matching Berkeley's score and edging third-place Toronto's 4.5 in the four-day annual event, the only collegiate chess championship in the country. The victory marks the third top finish for the team in the 1980s and its second in a row with the same four-member squad...
While students enrolled in any one of a university's degree programs are eligible to participate, Harvard's team is one of few contenders that boasts an all-undergraduate squad. Threequarters of Berkeley's team is composed of graduate students, said...
Harvard's victory came after a close brush with defeat, when in the third round it lost to Berkeley and fell behind the Californians a full point, 3-2. It remained behind the west coast team until the sixth and final round, when fourth-ranked Toronto edged Berkeley and Harvard defeated Minnesota, raising its score to a tying five points...
...plan to have both? If so, you may be in for some trouble. So says Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Hochschild contends that students who are convinced they can have it all are "about to walk off a cliff that they don't even know is there...