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In that time, the new league has completed second interviews with a group of general manager finalists, who include former U.S. national women’s team captain Natalie Darwitz and former Swiss national team goalie Florence Schelling, one person said.

"Cruelty has always been the point," said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.

Thomas Schelling, a well-connected Harvard economist and White House adviser, was on a plane bound for Boston when he started noodling with Xs and Os moving along a line.

In a biographical statement accompanying the prize, Schelling wrote of the checkerboard model, “Without knowing it I was pioneering a field of study that later became known as ‘agent-based computational modeling.’”

But when asked in a 2001 interview if the checkerboard model devised by Sakoda had influenced him, Schelling replied, “I have never heard of him.”