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...because of the quality facilities,” said Bill Gaine, deputy director of the MIAA. But the stadium’s renovation is not yet complete, inhibiting it from hosting all of the MIAA Super Bowl games. Night games cannot be played on the stadium’s turf because new field lights have yet to be installed, according to Gaines. “We don’t have a clean agreement yet, we’re still dealing with a couple of issues,” he said, The agreement is a community service effort...
...term Democrat's West Virginia district don't seem to care too much. In West Virginia, after all, pork barrel spending isn't frowned upon; on the contrary, the home state of legendary Senator Robert Byrd, widely considered the king of steering federal dollars to a congressman's home turf, tends to view the practice as just another way to provide jobs for the family down the street, if not for your own. And so far, questions about Mollohan's use of the clout associated with his seat on the appropriations committee have failed to derail his campaign...
...goal by turning aside six shots from the Stags. The lone Fairfield goal was scored by Mike Troy on a free kick from just under 20 yards out. By beating the Stags in Fairfield, the Crimson ended the Stags’ 13-game unbeaten streak on its own turf. Conversely, Harvard remains perfect—3-0-0—in overtime contests this season. —Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...nuclear weapons rejoined with new vigor. China will face the uncomfortable reality that its patronage of and friendship with North Korea gave it no leverage, at the decisive moment, over a troublesome neighbor whose actions threaten to destabilize the entire region and provoke a more assertive U.S. presence on turf that Beijing regards as its own back yard...
...jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen war worked for Putin back in 1999 - that's if Putin feels sufficiently emboldened to risk reiterating Moscow's neighborhood supremacy by challenging what he sees as a U.S. proxy on his own turf...