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...Players: Mark Brunell, Corey Dillon, Chris Chandler, Lincoln Kennedy, Mark Bruener, Brock Huard...
...Skinny: The second Pac-10 team on the list, the Huskies have sent Brunell, Dillon, Chandler and Kennedy to the Pro Bowl. Washington gets the nod over Tennessee (Peyton Manning, Jamal Lewis), Georgia (Terrell Davis, Mo Lewis, Champ Bailey) and Virginia (Aaron Brooks, Germane Crowell, Tiki Barber) for the final spot...
...DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, patrician head of the Smithsonian Institution whose flair and insight guided it through its greatest period of growth; in Washington, D.C. During Ripley's two-decade reign as secretary, the Smithsonian founded seven research facilities and eight museums, including the U.S. capital's most popular, the Air and Space Museum. The number of annual visitors increased nearly threefold to 30 million...
...DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, blue-blooded ornithologist and eighth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who from 1964 to 1984 transformed an assortment of staid displays into a vibrant, far-reaching complex of fun and education; in Washington. In 1968, when the directors wanted to close the museums during the Poor People's March after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Ripley decided instead to keep them open even later so the marchers could at least go in and use the rest rooms...
Hollywood, in fact, has recently discovered Cambodia as one of the world's most exotic backdrops. The Angelina Jolie-vehicle Tomb Raider shot scenes in the magnificence of Angkor Wat last year, and Matt Dillon will begin filming Beneath the Banyan Tree in mid-February, which will mark his debut as a director. But Hollywood brings in all the talent and equipment it needs, and only has to do location filming in Cambodia's arduous conditions. Cambodian filmmakers hardly have that luxury...