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Fickle nature also had a hand in Harvard’s midfield woes. Inclement weather aggravated unfamiliar conditions, as the Crimson traded the familiar artificial turf of Jordan Field for BC’s natural grass, made sloppier and less predictable by a rainy...
BOSTON—On baseball’s most hallowed ancient turf, the irony of last night’s Harvard Beanpot championship win—the team’s first in 14 years—was the outstanding play of its brightest young stars...
...later estimated that a downdraft was rushing through the thunderstorm cell at 80 m.p.h. The huge plane descended, but suddenly plunged belly first to the ground a mile north of Runway 17 at the nation's largest airport (roughly the size of Manhattan). The L-1011 bounced off the turf and came down again a quarter-mile away, grazing one car on busy State Highway 114 and demolishing a second car, whose driver was decapitated. The plane skipped across a grassy field, ricocheted off a water tower, then burst into flames as it slid across the tarmac. "It was like...
...President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq was taking no chances that the outpouring of sympathy for the Bhutto family would turn into a huge and possibly unmanageable political demonstration. Zia conveyed his condolences to young Bhutto's mother, then placed military forces on alert in Sind province, the traditional political turf of Bhutto and his Pakistan People's Party. Soldiers searched all incoming cars, buses, trucks and trains. The government also placed P.P.P. leaders under house arrest and forbade many prominent figures to attend the pending rites...
...realistic arms-control package has been seriously hampered by incessant bureaucratic infighting. Philosophical disputes have also muddied the Administration's broader Soviet policy. The President, airily detached from the daily power struggles within his Administration, has been unwilling to step in to resolve the arguments. His advisers, fiercely turf conscious and suspicious of each other, have been unable to settle their differences among themselves...