Word: turfing
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Most importantly, Harvard will get to play Penn on its home turf in Cambridge next year in a match that will likely once again decide the Ivy League championship...
...recent rise of the Harvard program has been no fluke. Jordan Field, Harvard’s three-year-old patch of artificial turf, has improved all facets of the game and allowed the Crimson to compete for top recruits. This year’s seniors were among the first to benefit, spurring Harvard to NCAAs in 2000 and paving the way for future tournament experiences...
...River House ratios] didn’t make for a really good social life because the men felt like you were infringing on their turf,” says McDonald, a Quincy house alum...
...Strangely, moreover, in a country awash with guns, the boot camp is having difficulty obtaining weapons for training. Requests must go through the Ministry of Defense, the turf of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who boasts a personal army of at least 18,000 men. In the run up to the loya jirga?an assembly to select a transitional government?current ministers are looking to shore up their own power. Fahim's support comes from his private troops, not the country's. To him, their needs take precedence, so the ANA must make do with only partially filled orders for gear. "Supporting...
...have some fun. A group of engineers thought that they had been ignored by the Harvard students and faculty. In revenge they decided to make their presence known at this, the holiest of holy tradition. During the night previous to the encounter, the group buried a wire under the turf and in the center of the field spelled out MIT. The letters were meant to have been burned into the field during half-time, just after the Harvard band finished their playing. They ran a cable back to the stands but, unfortunately for them, they ran out of time...