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...areas where Harvard struggled in the second half was on penalty corners. The poor conditions of the Northeastern turf, which included a giant patch-up job in the midfield, contributed to the Crimson’s prompt turnovers on each corner...
...tomorrow’s game at No. 15 Northeastern, New England’s top-ranked team, and the resumption of the Ivy schedule on Saturday at Cornell, Harvard’s last Ivy opponent before it welcomes seven-time defending Ivy champion No. 5 Princeton to its home turf a week later...
...game was played on neutral turf at Ann Arbor. The Crimson’s first trip to Michigan in school history gave the three natives a chance to catch...
...Lott thinks he can win his side to a super committee. "This is not a time for turf consciousness," he tells me. "This is a time for action." But Democratic and Republican leadership sources say that Daschle is having more problems in convincing his caucus to agree to a new super committee. The reason: Daschle's Democratic chairmen just got their chairs as a result of last spring's legislative coup. They're in no mood to give up jurisdiction this early...
...budget of his new position are still ill defined. But by last Friday the White House was loading him down with briefing books and scouting office space in the West Wing. Before he can figure out how to beat terrorism, however, he'll have to take on the turf-conscious Cabinet Secretaries and bureaucrats of the 40-plus agencies that share antiterrorism responsibility, as well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs...