Another prison break

It's been a good week for prison break stories:

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Jurors and victims' relatives fear they might be targets of a death row inmate who freed himself from handcuffs and walked out of a county jail in civilian clothes.

Convicted killer Charles Victor Thompson remained at large Saturday, authorities said. Thompson, 35, fooled at least four jail employees when he walked out of the Harris County Jail on Thursday.

"This was 100 percent human error. That's the most frustrating thing about it," sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Martin said Friday. "There were multiple failures. There were several points where it could have been prevented."
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This story follows the classical form in its introduction:

First paragraph: Teaser details: "walked out..." "in civilian clothes..."

Second paragraph: Criminal name and age. Development of detail: "fooled at least four jail employees.." Name of correctional facility.

Third paragraph: Law enforcement officer identified. Quotation expressing regret and frustration.

Lasker's House

Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was the world chess champion from 1894 to 1921. In an interesting article on the recently opened Emanuel Lasker exhibition in Berlin, I learned that he had a cool house that is going to be rebuilt:

He later went on to study mathematics at Erlangen University. He achieved the German master title in 1889. He made up a Nim variant called Lasker's Nim, which unfortunately is tame in misere play, so my recently developed fancy theory of such games is unneeded to solve it.

I've heard about Lasker having had quite a bit of contact with Einstein, but don't remember any of the details (Google would know).