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...American drive-in burger joint. But that's the only Westernized touch at Hotel de Pilawoos?the food, happily, makes no such concessions. The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hopper?a wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center. Made out of rice flour, yeast and coconut milk, hoppers are usually eaten with spicy sambol sauces or just a fried egg plopped in the center. They're quite light, so you'll want to order at least four per adult. I like them best with a blistering curry, and my personal...
...Broadbent] wasn’t able to put pace on the ball,” Crimson coach Satinder Bajwa said. “He did a lot of retrieving and soft play. He just needed to add a little bit of intensity when he opened the court...
...unusual move, Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni yanked junior netminder Dov Grumet-Morris 3:20 into the second period. After two fluke goals—one the result of an inexplicable ricochet off the glass, the other knocked directly in by the shot of a teammate—and one soft rebound that led to the Eagles third goal, Mazzoleni elected to replace Grumet-Morris in net with sophomore John Daigneau...
...soft money took its rightful place beside libel, obscenity and false advertising as a form of speech prohibited in the name of the public good. In a surprise decision, the Supreme Court upheld nearly all the major provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)—including a ban on unlimited donations to political parties, known as soft money, and new laws regulating television advertising bought on behalf of candidates by their corporate and union supporters...
BCRA’s opponents had claimed that banning soft money and restricting advertising was tantamount to limiting the right to free speech of corporations, unions and special interest groups. In rejecting this argument, the Supreme Court declared, in effect, that the importance of protecting of these means of speech was outweighed by the need to prevent the appearance of corruption in politics. The Court was right to make the reduction of apparent corruption a primary concern. In a country where the more monied candidates win 90 percent of the elections, the influence of wealthy donors cannot be denied...