Word: pitting
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...them are local kids who come here after school, but about 20 of the 100 or so regulars are homeless, often migrants drawn to Harvard Square from around the country, but almost indiscernable from their high school friends. With their mohawks, piercings, brightly colored hair, leather and studs, the pit kids are hard to miss. But Harvard students routinely walk right by them as if all that attention-getting eyeliner were so much invisible...
Then, in one fell swoop 150 Harvard students and affiliates descended silently into the pit kids' domain--their community center if you will--in order to express their moral outrage at an assault on a Harvard student that was being investigated as a hate crime. The terrible spectre of an invasion of skinheads onto campus loomed out of the dark recesses of Harvard's collective imagination. The kids with the tattooes, with the shaved heads or green hair--they were the target of the protest, they were the skinheads. Or so Harvard to all outward appearances agreed...
...month he has been here, he has gotten into shouting matches with numerous students, and a couple have even taken swings at him, he says. When that happens, he says, his fellow friends in the pit are left with few options...
According to the report, an unnamed informant in the Pit described two men believed to be involved in the incident, one of whom went by the name "Ben." The informants told police that both of the people might be found near the Anderson Bridge on the Charles River...
...that she almost single-handedly destroyed her team and then brought them roaring back. And if all the drama wasn't enough, the image of her angrily tearing off her silver medal at the end of the night was enough to make all the clicking photographers in the media pit giddy with the thought of impending royalties. And this, of course, was just the team competition...