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...think the last time Colin played him, he beat him, but we all know that Baset is much more polished then he was three months ago,” Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa said prior to the contest...
...what, if anything, can be done to give the Pro Bowl some luster? A 16-game season in a sport as hard-hitting as the NFL is already a test of endurance; there will always be players who opt out of the Pro Bowl because they're legitimately too beat up to play. Fining players who invent dubious injuries to duck out would be a start, although making a consequential dent in a superstar athlete's salary might be tough. At minimum, moving the game back to the Sunday following the Super Bowl seems like a no-brainer. Teams...
...Tigers, who have also remained unbeaten this season, are coming off of a big win against Dartmouth last Sunday. At that meet, Princeton beat the Big Green in 12 swimming events and placed no lower than second in any of the others...
...FRIDAY The local Hyatt, tel: (996-312) 66 12 34, is hard to beat for either comfort or location. But when hunger strikes, skip the hotel's anodyne Mediterranean restaurant and instead head out in search of local fare. You're never far from some family-run enterprise serving such local favorites as lagman (a hearty noodle stew), plov (rice with fried meat, onions and carrots) and kebabs. The Bakit Restaurant, at 214 Sovietskaya Street, is one of the best. With stomach well lined, move on to Fatboys on Chuy Avenue, tel: (996-312) 62 31 28, for a welcoming...
...Lanka's self-described "rebel with a cause" - extended his four decades in politics with a landslide victory on Jan. 27 in the country's first election since the end of its 26-year civil war. Upending predictions that the contest would be a close fight, Rajapaksa easily beat his challenger, General Sarath Fonseka - a former ally in Sri Lanka's military victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers - with 57.9% of the vote. Though he was hailed by many members of Sri Lanka's ethnic Sinhalese majority for emerging victorious from the decades-long conflict with the Liberation Tigers...