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...Crimson women made the utmost of home turf advantage, dominating the Victorian Urn. Harvard sailed out of its own floating home on Larks and Flying Juniors, to both of which the team is accustomed...
With the game clock located directly behind him, Shula completed a one-yard pass to running back Chris Little out of the backfield in the left flat. But sophomore safety Ryan Tully pounced on Little, driving him to the turf at the 35-yard line. That kept him in bounds—and the clock running. The Big Green, seemingly unaware of how few seconds remained, methodically tried to set up and allow Shula to spike the ball in order to stop the clock and try a field goal. Instead, Shula spiked the ball just after time ran out. After...
...goalkeeper Aliaa Remtilla made six saves, most of them brilliant ones. The Big Green offense, predicated on making long passes ahead in hopes of gaining breakaway opportunities, had a few chances for goals, but, stabbing a high hard shot, diving to her right and left, and dropping to the turf with her legs split, Remtilla repeatedly denied the Dartmouth charge...
...penalty corners and a stifling defense, the Crimson took the early advantage and didn’t look back. Led by two goals and an assist from senior midfielder Shelley Maasdorp, Harvard captured the away game, transplanted due to BU’s lack of a home turf...
...savviest dealmakers are up to. For Cendant, the online onslaught was beginning to feel like water torture as cyberbookers chipped away at its core business: playing middleman between customers and the company's many franchisees. So last month CEO Henry Silverman, a veteran wheeler-dealer, moved to protect his turf by agreeing to buy Orbitz for $1.25 billion. The acquisition catapults Silverman to the top tier of online travel. His biggest rival there is another celebrity CEO, Barry Diller--the onetime Hollywood mogul who created the Fox network--whose IAC/InterActiveCorp owns Expedia, Hotels.com and Hotwire. That these inventive personalities...