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...match-up in tonight's game at Cornell (5-6, 0-0) will be in the post. Cornell senior center Jeffrion Aubry is ninth in the Ancient Eight in scoring at 14.2 points per game (ppg) and, with his 6'11 frame, third in rebounding at 8.7 rebounds per game (rpg). Aubry made this week's Ivy League Honor Roll by pacing the Big Red with 22 points and 14 rebounds in last Saturday's loss at Army...
...DELHI: India won?t be stopped from confronting Pakistan -- on the cricket field. Hindu nationalist extremists on Thursday dug up the New Delhi pitch (the cricket playing field) hoping to sabotage the first match in 13 years between the rival nuclear powers. But the government is determined to play on. ?This is a nation of cricketers, and they desperately want to see Pakistan come here and play,? says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. ?And see India trounce them...
...Sena party who want to stop any rapprochement with Pakistan. ?But the government will make sure the game goes ahead,? says McGirk, ?because Prime Minister Vajpayee has given in too many times to extremists.? Of course, the Shiv Sena action could be seen as a bid to sway the match -- a damaged pitch would more likely favor India?s spin bowlers than it would Pakistan?s pace...
...demise in the near future. The exile lobby is satisfied, but critics such as Warner point out that Cuba is getting rougher treatment than even Iraq and North Korea. Except, perhaps, when it comes to sports: The White House is backing plans by the Baltimore Orioles for an exhibition match against Cuba's national team in March. Of course, if they're hoping to thaw Cuban society, the Orioles had better throw the game -- Castro is a notoriously bad loser...
...back to his drawing board in the 1940s, he gave Mighty Joe Young two things King Kong, his first and greatest ape, lacked: a user-friendly name and a lady friend who didn't burst into screams every time she caught sight of him. The result didn't quite match King Kong, arguably the movies' most intense portrayal of unrequited love, but it remains a sweet memory, now happily recalled by director Ron Underwood's genial remake...