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...final episode as host of The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien ’85 used some of his last few moments to comfort his disaffected fans. “All I ask,” he said, is to “not be cynical. I hate cynicism…it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.” Indeed, although Conan had many reasons to be cynical that night, his ratings weren’t one of them. Conan’s farewell not only eclipsed Letterman...
...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...
...home, use the Sundance Selects video-on-demand channel to watch three premieres (The Shock Doctrine, Daddy Longlegs, 7 Days) from the comfort of your living room. If you live in one of eight selected cities outside Utah (from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Nashville to San Francisco), you can try to snag a ticket for a Jan. 28 Sundance screening as festival filmmakers travel with their official selections to theaters across the country...
...Dartmouth three-pointers and four Harvard missed free throws allowed the Big Green to make the finish too close for comfort for the Crimson...
...words will be little comfort to Chen Li. Like millions of other Chinese, the Beijing-based Web developer is struggling with one of the side effects of the country's stimulus efforts - a runaway property market. Fueled by cheap credit, property prices have grown steadily since mid-2009. A government survey of 70 medium- and large-size cities found that in December, average housing costs jumped 2.1% over the previous month - the fastest increase in 18 months. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...