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Corso left no doubts as he obliged the home crowd and appeared in a Benjamin Franklin get-up, predicting that Penn would defeat the Crimson and win the Ivy title on its home turf. And while Corso’s costume may have technically been inaccurate—Franklin isn’t actually Penn’s mascot—its spirit was absolutely correct. Following the genius of its bespectacled founding father, Penn invented a new way to win in this rivalry—by blowout...
Harvard, for its part, was stymied by Penn’s speed on the turf. Milanese, a small guy at 5’10, 175 lbs., lined up in the slot, so he was very rarely covered by either of Harvard’s junior cornerbacks, Benny Butler and Chris Raftery. Instead, a rotation of linebackers covered Milanese short, and he was up against safeties deep...
...hostages who were later released. Basayev may feel this is a good time for martyrdom. He lost a leg in early 2000, leading his men through a minefield, and many of his family and most of his comrades are dead. Alpha will now hunt Basayev on his home turf, the districts of Nozhai-Yurt and particularly Vedeno, about 50 km southeast of Grozny, the base for resistance to the Russians for nearly two centuries. Basayev reportedly moves between the two areas, but usually keeps close to Vedeno, his home village. The village still has the remains of a fort built...
Meeting organizer John Pitkin told the crowd that the “increasingly urgent need” to stop Harvard’s growth mandated the rare assembly of the neighborhoods—each of which has been fighting Harvard’s building projects on their own turf...
...have great athletes, four years of experience of turf and a great schedule, so we’ve put ourselves in the position to be ready for this,” said Caples of Harvard’s national competitiveness...