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...inevitable disputes. Political rivalries were played out on the field, and the sponsors closely watched for reactions. At the end of every day each play was discussed in minutia over multiple cups of green tea. Names rose and fell; so did reputations. "This is how leadership was decided," says Azoy...
...Buzkashi is the best way to understand Afghanistan in this new era," Whitney Azoy, author of Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan, told me. "It's all about unbridled competition for power, and the fact that no one can hold it for very long. Individuals rather than institutions are still the prime movers, and here individuals constantly shift sides and make new alliances...
...Hamlin came into his own Saturday. Previously, Hamlin has had when he was forced to run two races in one meet. Saturday he three, and each one was better than last. He took third in the mile, behind Mullin and Mack; he won the over Princeton's Whit Azoy...
...final leg of the two-mile , against Azoy and Mack, he in a sparkling 1:54.7 880. This is probably one of the two or three fastest half-miles in Crimson history--and it was done with the outcome of the hanging in the balance...
Other hard-fought events should be the broad jump, in which any of six competitors could win, and the two-mile relay, which should produce a tight Harvard-Princeton battle. Princeton's twosome of Hoey and Azoy threatens in the 1000, but Mullin or Ed Hamlin, who seems to be on his way after a 1:57 880 leg against Holy Cross, should take first for the Crimson...