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...game, the Quakers were toying with the Crimson. Up 58-37 with 5:30 left in the game, Tim Begley hooked up with Ugonna Onyekwe for a monster alley-oop, electrifying the crowd of 4,152 at the Palestra. On the game, the Quakers speed and turnovers resulted in five alley-oops. Onyekwe finished the game with 19 points, and a game high 10 rebounds...
When the skies turned dark at the end of last month, Supa Suparman knew it would pour. What she didn't know was how much or how fast. By the next morning, her clothes were floating down the alley and her one-room house had filled with water to a depth of 2 m. "All I have left is what I'm wearing," moans the 42-year-old mother of four, now living with 1,000 others in a cemetery, the highest point in one east Jakarta neighborhood. Within a week, 50 cm of rain, double the amount that normally...
...Xiao Gugu, a high-school Chinese literature teacher and staunch epicure, has plotted out an evening of eating. (When flying to Taipei, don't bother touching a morsel on the plane.) We head to Liaoning Street in northeast Taipei where vendors famous for their seafood concoctions line the crowded alley. Xiao Gugu waves us over to a woman who is ladling taro batter onto a round grill. We watch as she nonchalantly cracks two eggs over the clear taro and smooths the mixture into a perfect circle. She then sprinkles plump oysters over the omelette and folds it all together...
...local boosters sullied their high standards in much the same way that steroid-popping athletes do. Purity was sacrificed to pragmatism. The Salt Lake City Olympic committee pulled a sort of financial Tanya Harding, hoping to rig the results in the arena by pulling shameful shenanigans in the alley. The Olympic flame may symbolize great things, but lately it's had a tendency to burn people...
...York on Thursday night; the weather stank. Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager. As they negotiated the temperature gradient between Park Avenue and the Waldorf's Peacock Alley, you could also almost see, as well as hear, a thousand snuffles. The mood of attendees was not helped, either, by the never ending line for the hand-held gizmo that enables you to sign up for sessions remotely; I got mine at the third attempt...