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With its well-proportioned central plaza and carefully orchestrated densities, however, Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters...
...know OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging, Moneyball's sacred stat) from UPS. "I don't like the computer," he says. "I go with instincts and gut feelings and heart." Entering last weekend, the Nats had won an NL-high 17 one-run games, in which a manager's chess moves have the most impact...
...authors of the paper criticize popular college rankings for putting too much weight on the matriculation rate and the admission rate, which colleges can manipulate. Their own system is an extension of models used in chess and tennis tournaments, combining data about where students choose to matriculate given the colleges to which they are accepted. The rankings placed Harvard first, followed by Yale, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, MIT, Princeton, and Brown...
...look at issues and problems and organize what I’m going to do, in terms of decision-making, is quite methodical, and was influenced by chess playing,” Duehay says...
...paths, as undergraduates, were not that parallel,” says Little, the Class Secretary for the Class of 1955, who will also be Duehay’s roommate in Winthrop during the reunion. “Other than knowing he was on the chess team, I didn’t know that much...