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...These seniors have a tremendous work ethic that has paved the way for others," said Harvard Coach Jay Weiss. "Their fingerprints are all over this place, for they are responsible for raising the bar of this Harvard program...
...aggressiveness is definitely needed against this top Penn program. The reigning EIWA champs, the Penn squad came to Cambridge after handing Brown a 23-16 loss the previous night. They boast four nationally-ranked wrestlers and are ranked No. 14 in the nation and second in the EIWA behind Lehigh. While overall the meet did not go as the Crimson had hoped, there were several impressive individual performances that highlighted the day for Harvard...
Studies in New York City show that kids who play chess perform better in reading on national standardized tests. The gains are especially impressive in students who initially lagged behind their classmates. Schools across the U.S. are incorporating the game into their curriculums. Chess-in-the-Schools, the largest program, teaches the game to more than 36,000 students in 160 schools in New York City. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chess Federation, the governing body for all tournament play, has 42,000 junior members--an elevenfold increase since 1989. "Years back, people who played chess were considered nerdy," says Barbara DeMaro...
Welsh runs the nonprofit Harlem Educational Activities Fund, which bankrolls the chess programs at Mott Hall and the Harlem Chess Center (with donations from, among others, a charitable arm of Time Warner, parent company of this magazine). Much of the credit for Harlem's love affair with chess goes to Maurice Ashley, 33, a grand master and the highest-ranked black player in history. Ashley, who established Mott's chess program a decade ago, saw the game as a way to foster academic achievement and self-esteem. "I call chess intellectual karate," he says. "It's about setting a concrete...
...York City welfare recipients who have been placed in jobs by the city's Business Link program...