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...Chickens are also on the menu at the Pousade de Maubisse, perhaps the finest hotel in East Timor. Rooms are $40 a night midweek, $70 on weekends. There are no phones, so visitors must simply turn up. Perched on a rise in East Timor's central highlands, a four-hour drive north of Dili, the hotel is surrounded on all sides by a jagged mountain range that resembles the Swiss Alps without the altitude. A gracious establishment with wide, marble verandas, luxurious rooms, cultivated rose gardens and crisp, clean air, the hotel was once the favored retreat for Portuguese colonials...
...mandatory, but early this month the ucb said that changes within the sport had made such quotas redundant-an idea supported by several of South Africa's black players. But the anc Youth League called the move "sad and shameful" and vowed to disrupt the 2003 tournament. By midweek, however, after a tense meeting between cricket and government officials, the ucb appeared to make a conciliatory U-turn, declaring that the country's 14-man squad for the World Cup would have at least five black players...
Nyweide, who had endured a particularly rough outing the previous weekend against Dartmouth, turned in a three-hit shutout in the opener. In the second game, Sheffield—who had been a JV player, a midweek pitcher, a member of the right field platoon and finally a weekend starter—could call himself the winning pitcher in the series clincher...
...midweek trip to UMass on April 17 resulted in another loss, in spite of freshman Mike McBride’s first collegiate hat trick. The Crimson nearly stopped the streak at six games the following Saturday, but fell to Yale in New Haven...
Less than two weeks ago, Harvard hosted Boston College in a midweek matchup. It was about 80 degrees, and the green grass of O’Donnell Field smelled of summer beneath the cloudless, blue sky. It was a perfect day for baseball...