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...Player of the Year-quarterback who can cause damage both with his arm and his legs. Crimson captain Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 1,986 yards and rushed for another 448, while the Utes’ Alex Smith has tossed for 2,624 yards and scampered across 563 yards of turf...
...least there’s always localism: a charitable university, a city willing to alleviate homelessness on its own turf, a group of students willing to lend a hand. It’s certainly not perfect, but it may be the best we?...
...Thai security forces have fueled Muslim resentment. Some analysts believe that unidentified Islamic separatists, inspired by the global jihad, are exploiting this anger to launch attacks against the state. Others caution that the south has long been a violent place, with the police, military, gangsters and politicians fighting turf wars with one another over the black-market trade in gasoline, guns, narcotics and other contraband...
...Mukesh insists that he was not trying to extend his powers at Anil's expense but merely emphasizing that the chairman ran Reliance. Although the crux of the dispute appears to be Anil's growing conviction that he was being sidelined by his brother, conflict was exacerbated by turf wars. An Anil supporter says that Reliance Energy, the company headed by Anil, was promised that by 2006 it would receive natural gas from Reliance Industries that it needed to run a new power plant; this source says the promised delivery of gas was then delayed to 2008. A Reliance spokesman...
...office of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection-to build the system. But IAIP was almost immediately mugged by the CIA, which backed a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center to do much the same thing. The Pentagon and the FBI ignored both efforts, in the classic passive-aggressive manner of turf-obsessed bureaucrats...