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  • ( ) The Kingmaker How Bobby Fischer brought chess to America.

    Bobby Fischer, the American chess icon whose name became synonymous with the game in the United States, died of kidney failure in an Iceland hospital Thursday. Fischer, who was 64, won the world chess championship against Russian Boris Spassky in 1972, making him the first American in more than a century to take the prize. In a "Sandbox" column published last May, Ann Hulbert discussed how Fischer popularized the game—and how his decline and disappearance, ironically, kept it going. The article is reprinted below.

    In January of 1958, three months after Sputnik triggered an educational panic in America much like today's angst about the global talent race, a 14-year-old boy from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn made headlines: Bobby Fischer became the youngest U.S. champion in a cerebral sport long associated with genius—and long dominated by the Russians. More>>

  • ( ) Kristine Sorensen

    Click here to e-mail your story idea to Kristine When she's not playing with her children, Kristine enjoys reading, sewing and enjoying Pittsburgh's cultural institutions.She has studied dance since she was a child and performed with dance companies for 10 years.Kristine is on the Board of Trustees for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and has also written about dance for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is also an active supporter of The March of Dimes and has served as their spokesperson.Kristine is married to KDKA-TV Investigative Reporter Marty Griffin. They have two daughters, Sophia and Chloe. . More>>

  • ( ) Like `everybody's living room,' libraries are vital to civic life ...

    Toronto culture has its ups and downs, but the city's libraries have always remained solid.

    We seem to be, relatively speaking, a city of readers and our library system is supreme in North America – far overshadowing in total circulation, number of branches and number of visits, the library systems of such cities as Chicago and Los Angeles.

    The civic purse is empty, but the city has recently coughed up enough to keep the system going and to help maintain that supremacy. Toronto city Councillor Kyle Rae (Ward 27) cites an increase of close to a million dollars over last year in the capital budget for the library, which covers repairs and renovations (see sidebar above).

    More should be on the way for the operating budget – book purchases and so on – as well as for the capital budget. More>>

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