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...drink gets its name). This is filled with fermented millet seeds. Your host then adds hot water in a ritual reminiscent of a Japanese tea ceremony. Drinkers suck the alcoholic mixture through a bamboo straw with tiny filters to keep the seeds out, and it's a never-ending affair. You sit around the fire with a thermos flask topping up the pot for hours, and snack on spiced cucumber and mutton pieces known as sekura or sukuli. The locals will assure you that tongba never leads to hangovers?but it certainly makes sleep come more quickly...
Slipping into the same bad habits that plagued the team for most of the regular season, the Crimson fell 6-4 to the Catamounts in a rough-and-tumble affair that featured plenty of crushing hits, thrown punches and blown whistles...
...CHUNG: For me, one of the defining scenes of cinema is in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, when a middle-aged Winters begins rabidly beating James Mason, her vacant, utterly expressionless face unambiguously channeling her fiery rage upon learning of her husband’s affair with her daughter. But I digress...
...Elect Rove.” A group advocating for the poor has already vowed to erect “Bushville” tent cities around the convention site, and websites like rncnotwelcome.org offer resources to New Yorkers and travelers who seek to “subvert this carefully staged affair.” (The GOP seems to be taking this seriously, having quickly bought up the similar-sounding rncnotwelcome.com address and linking it to their own party website.) In a city where 81 percent of the residents voted for Al Gore, the capital of the blue states, it?...
...contest remained a back-and forth affair, with three ties and three lead changes, as the teams looked much closer in ability than they did at a post-Thanksgiving Harvard shutout earlier this season. And although Harvard had leads of 2-1 and 3-2, the team was still very happy to leave Appleton Arena with a point...