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With the first round on what is clearly its turf, the Big Red is going to be a force to reckon with...
...turf war resulting from Harvard University's decentralization has delayed even the most obvious physical plant improvements," says Marc Lindemann, the Law School's intramural squash coordinator. "This infighting has hurt law students, who now are stuck with a mediocre gym whose infrastructure is falling apart and whose equipment is inadequate...
...city's toughest neighborhoods. It's a densely populated mix of Latino immigrants, Korean shopkeepers, down-on-their-luck drug addicts and gangs--lots of gangs. The 8-sq.-mi. area has 30 different youth gangs, with thousands of members among them, squaring off for turf...
Perez has recounted a stunning collection of illegal acts, many as bizarre as they are disturbing. He told of one officer whose car tires were slashed. The cop and his partner tracked down the gang member they believed was responsible and dropped him--naked--in a rival gang's turf. Perez tells of another CRASH officer who shot a suspect repeatedly with a beanbag shotgun--a nonlethal weapon used to knock suspects to the ground...
...races beamed in by satellite from the major tracks in New York, Florida, Louisiana and California, the regulars watch all of the races--including the ones happening 50 feet away--on television. The tracks have names which are alternately pastoral and geriatric: the Fair Grounds, Bay Meadows, Oaklawn Park, Turf Paradise. Races go off like firecrackers on the Fourth, and watching four big-screen TVs and handicapping four sets of horses simultaneously induces a curiously pleasurable dizziness. I've seen a hobbled man pushing 80 scream for the duration of one race at Laurel, sling a wad of losing tickets...