Word: turfing
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...impossibly green paddocks of Britain and Ireland, but a splendid racing complex set amid skyscrapers in Hong Kong's Sha Tin New Town. To the folk of Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, Silent Witness was a hero; to true followers of the turf, worldwide, a legend. Now, put to pasture, he deserves to be known for who he really...
...again. "'You are a tribal leader,'" Noorzai said Wali Karzai told him. "'You can help.'" Separately, Noorzai got a call from Saitullah Khan Babar, a friend and former officer in Pakistan's military intelligence service, the ISI. The Americans, Babar told Noorzai, had proposed a meeting in Dubai, neutral turf. Warily, Noorzai agreed...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team traveled to Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool this weekend hoping to defeat the Tigers in its own pool for the first time since 1983. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Princeton successfully defended its home turf and defeated the Crimson 190-163 in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Crimson found some solace in the fact that it overcame the Bulldogs 184-169 to complete its dual meet portion of the season with a 7-2 overall record, 6-2 in the EISL—good enough for second place...
...Begun well before the blaze, his new novel Love Without Hope (Picador; 269 pages) carries the spirit of regeneration that comes after loss. Here the landscape of "hearty little horsewoman" Lorna Shoddy is also transfigured by fire. "A bell of silence clapped itself down over the blackened trees and turf," writes Hall, "her world curling at the edges and noiselessly crepitating, little spits of silence dodging among the ashes." Stripped of her beloved Australian Waler horses, and without the support of family, Mrs. Shoddy is reduced, by all appearances, to madness. At 73 she finds herself straitjacketed in a country...
...should have come as no surprise that the Kurds protested furiously at the U.S. raid on an Iranian facility on their turf. While U.S. officials talk about curbing meddling and say the men arrested were part of Iran's Revolutionary Guard armed forces, Kurdish leaders - including Iraq's foreign minister Hoyshar Zebari - have demanded the release of the arrested Iranians and slammed the U.S. for failing to check with them before launching the operation...