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...Crimson had a near perfect slate, with only two losses, both of which could have easily have been Crimson wins. The racquetwomen expected a tougher match from Trinity, but Harvard just cruised like a ship in the ocean...Harvard simply dominated...
Eastern sensibilities -- specifically the delicate seasonings of Japan -- also float through Elizabeth Andoh's An Ocean of Flavor (Morrow; $20.95). Andoh, an American who is married to a Japanese and has spent many years in Japan, makes a fine guide to that country's methods of enhancing the flavor of seafood without obliterating it. She explains as well the techniques of frying, poaching, grilling and cutting raw fish for the right textural contrasts and warns about pollutants and parasites. Fried soft-shell crabs in a spicy sauce, cold poached tilefish with mustard-miso sauce and fiddlehead ferns, and a careful...
...past it's taken the football guys about a month to get back to where they should be," Roby said. "Last year when Neil came back, he couldn't stick the ball in the ocean. He was something like 2-for-18 to start the year, but he finished up shooting almost 47 percent from three-point range on the season...
...Navy may mistreat people," joked an officer last week, "but never dolphins." He was trying to defuse charges by Rick Trout, a former trainer at the Naval Ocean Systems Command in San Diego, that sea mammals in a classified Navy program had been beaten or starved during training, and that two had died as a result of abuse. The Marine Mammal Commission, announced that it will investigate...
...prospect of a military invasion of the Republic of Maldives would seem to be almost as remote as the Indian Ocean archipelago itself. A collection of some 1,200 coral islands that together make up only 115 sq. mi. of land, the country lies several hundred miles southwest of India and Sri Lanka. Its 195,000 citizens, most of them Sunni Muslims, earn their living largely from fishing and tourism. Possession of guns is outlawed, except for the fewer than 2,000 lightly armed members of the National Security Service, and violence is virtually unknown. Yet last week the capital...