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Harvard's varsity soccer team was put at a very serious disadvantage in the NCAA university division soccer playoffs when T. Fred Holloway, Cortland State soccer coach and chairman of the NCAA tournament selection committee for the New York district, ruled that Columbia must postpone its scheduled match with Brown today and instead play Hartwick this afternoon in the New York NCAA finals...
...NCAA regulations state that the regional finals must be played on or before Tuesday, Nov. 24th, the exact date being determined by the athletic directors of the two participants. If the athletic directors fail to reach an agreement, the head of the district tournament committee will settle the dispute...
Harvard never complained when Jellison decided to try his hand at Ivy League academics and athletics. Jellison was a hot commodity after having received All-State honors in football as a defensive back...
There are other dumps. Only a few miles away, near a barren field called the Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may also be feeding the chemical into nearby rivers; and from Maine to Arkansas to California and Oregon, dioxin has left a trail of sickness, fetal miscarriages and death wherever it has entered the environment...
Jurisdictional jealousy, while annoying, is harmless--unless the regional offices are not doing their jobs. Internal memos state that regional offices have repeatedly ignored reports of leaking industrial dumpsites, and have allowed toxic chemicals to pollute water and food supplies for thousands of people without taking any action...