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...Harvard Stadium stood as one of the few lasting symbols of the University’s since-lost relevance within the collegiate sports world. But a series of events beginning that year threatened what was possibly the longest-living possession of the Harvard athletic department...
...stadium’s concrete seats began to fracture in the late 1920s and early 1930s, water began to seep through the cracks and make contact with the steel underneath. Fifty years of corrosion later, Harvard Stadium, a gift from the class of 1879, needed a makeover...
...Then-University President Derek C. Bok, however, hesitated when told that so much money would go to an athletic project that would not produce an entirely new building.Reardon says that Bok actually called in another engineer with no prior experience inspecting the stadium in the hopes of finding a less expensive opinion. But his conclusion was the same—the stadium was on its last legs...
...play!," while police units did aerobics in the park. President Evo Morales and his "team" (cabinet members and former Bolivian pros who often join him in friendly matches against local teams in rural villages) played a quadruple-header, including three games in the 11,735-ft.-high national stadium. Many of the spectators sported a T-shirt depicting a victorious Morales standing on a soccer field above the words "Bolivia is Soccer"; on the back, "No to the Veto; Yes to Sports...
...array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch at the Ivy, dinner at Le Caprice, and a night in the penthouse suite of somewhere historic and magnificent like Claridges...